Julian Sher

Julian Sher is a Canadian investigative journalist, filmmaker, author and newsroom trainer based in Montreal, Quebec. He was an investigative producer for ten years then a senior producer for five years with the CBC's The Fifth Estate. He has written extensively about outlaw motorcycle gangs, child abuse and the justice system^[1].

Career[]

Sher began work at CBC in Montreal as an on-air radio journalist and show producer from 1983 to 1986. From 1986 to 1989, he was an investigative reporter for CBC Television in Montreal. He became a producer for the CBC network program The Fifth Estate from 1989 to 2001, where he covered wrongful convictions, police corruption, war criminals and biker gangs. Sher then worked as an investigative reporter for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. He returned to be the Senior Producer for CBC's The Fifth Estate from 2012-2018^[2].

From 2001 to 2013, he wrote six investigative gooks. His book Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of American's Prostituted Children and The Battle to Save Them was described by Publisher's Weekly as «a thorough, deeply affecting study... [that] strikes a rare balance between revealing trauma and hope.”^[3]

His other book on child safety, One Child at a Time: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators was described by newspaper reviewers as “riveting” “eye-opening” and “gripping”^[4]. His writings on child abuse have appeared on the front page of the New York Times, the cover of Maclean's magazine and the OpEd page of USA Today^[5].

He co-authored two books on outlaw motorcycle gangs, The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada and Angels of Death: Inside the Biker's Global Crime Empire, which was called “a devastating indictment of the gangs' drug-running and racketeering across three continents by the London Daily Mail and has been translated into several languages in seven countries^[6].

His book Until You Are Dead: Steven Truscott's Long Ride Into History about Canada's most famous murder trial helped lead to an official re-opening of a 40-year-old case and clearing a man who was wrongly convicted^[7].

His first book White Hoods: Canada's Ku Klux Klan, an expose of racism in Canada is cited as the main source of the subject in the encyclopedias^[8].

He has filmed, written, directed and produced documentaries on scandals, wars and corporate intrigue in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, South Africa, Somalia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Holland, France, England, the United States and Canada.

Sher taught journalists at CNN, the BBC, in newspapers and TV networks across Canada. He has been a guest speaker and trainer at conferences for the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). He also trained in Bangladesh for FOJO and MRDI, with Syrian journalists in Turkey for Journalists for Human Rights, in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria.

In 1990, Sher was president of the Canadian Association of Journalists^[9]. He now sits on the advisory board of the Investigative Journalism Bureau^[10] at the University of Toronto.

Bibliography[]

• 1983: ^[11]
• 2001: ^[7]
• 2003: ^[12] co-authored by William Marsden
• 2006: ^[6] co-authored by William Marsden
• 2007: ^[4]
• 2013: ^[3]

Filmography[]

Director[]

• 2006: ^[13]
• 2007:
• 2008:
• 2009: ^[14]
• 2009: ^[15]
• 2012: A Mother's Ordeal^[16]
• 2021: ^[17]
• 2021: ^[18][19]

Writer[]

• 2006: ^[13]
• 2007:
• 2008:
• 2009: ^[14]
• 2009: ^[15]
• 2012: A Mother's Ordeal^[16]
• 2021: ^[17]
• 2021: ^[18][19]

Awards[]

• 1997: Gemini for best TV Documentary ^[20]
• 2004: Arthur Ellis Award, Crime Writers of Canada, Best Non-Fiction ^[21]
• 2006: Governor General of Canada's Michener-Deacon Fellowship^[22]
• 2007 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award ^[23]
• 2008: Arthur Ellis Award, Crime Writers of Canada Best Non Fiction ^[24]
• 2014: International Emmy “Made in Bangladesh” CBC The Fifth Estate (Senior Producer)^[25]

References[]

External links[]

• Julian Sher Official Page
• Toronto Star Author page
• Julian Sher Amazon Page
• Interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA
• Meet the Director of Ghosts of Afghanistan

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