Chris Hannay is a business reporter at The Globe and Mail. His beat is independent business: the small- and medium-sized enterprises that employ more than half of Canadians. He has written features about industries from restaurants to veterinary clinics, and investigated government programs and how big businesses can push smaller rivals around. He won an award from his business-journalism peers in 2022 for his beat reporting.
He also writes some of The Globe's editorials as a contributing member of the editorial board.
Before that, he was assignment editor in The Globe's Ottawa bureau, where he helped direct coverage of federal politics. He created the daily politics newsletter and wrote it every morning for more than five years. He also wrote some national arts stories while in Ottawa and won a National Newspaper Award for arts reporting in 2018.
He started at The Globe as a copy editor on a summer contract and has worked in just about every department over the years.
