Marcus Gee

Journalism is a kind of family business for Marcus. His grandfather and uncle were both well-known journalists. He started out at the University of British Columbia, where he wrote for the student newspaper, the Ubyssey, and occasionally studied, too. After working for The Province, Vancouver's morning newspaper, he spent four years in Asia, the first three in Hong Kong as an editor, writer and correspondent for Asiaweek magazine, and the last as a reporter for United Press International in Manila and Sydney.

He joined The Globe in 1991 as an editorial writer. He went on to roles as foreign affairs columnist, Asian business reporter, cities columnist and features writer. Among the issues and events he has covered are the war in Kosovo, the upheaval in East Timor and the Rob Ford scandal in Toronto. Marcus has won seven National Newspaper Awards for his writing, four of them for his sustained coverage of Canada’s ongoing opioids crisis.