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Stephen Edward Kimber ONS (born August 25, 1949) is a Canadian journalist, editor and broadcaster and instructor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [1]
Kimber was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended Dalhousie University from 1967 to 1970, where he served as editor of the Dalhousie Gazette. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Baltimore in 2001.[ citation needed ]
From 1985 to 2002 he was the weekly political and general columnist for The Daily News in Halifax. He is currently a weekly political and public affairs columnist for the Halifax Examiner and a Contributing Editor for Atlantic Business Magazine. His writing has appeared in many major Canadian newspapers and magazines. As an Ottawa-based broadcaster, he was a current affairs producer on CTV Television Network and a producer, story editor, writer and host for many CBC Television and radio programs. [2]
He has been a professor at the University of King's College since 1983 and has been the director of the School of Journalism three times. In 2013, he co-founded the university's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. [3] [4]
Kimber received an honorable mention from the Centre for Investigative Journalism that he shared with Kelly Shiers for an article in Cities Magazine about the botched search for a little boy lost in the woods of Nova Scotia. [5]
He won the 2022 Evelyn Richardson Award for his book Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics. [6]
In 2023, he was appointed a member of the Order of Nova Scotia for representing Nova Scotia in the national press and mentoring several generations of journalists. [7]
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The University of King's College is a public liberal arts university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Established in 1789, it is the oldest chartered university in Canada, and the oldest English-speaking university in the Commonwealth outside of the United Kingdom. The university is regarded for its Foundation Year Program (FYP), an undergraduate curriculum designed to comprehensively study a variety of intellectual developments—past and present—through great books and ideas. It is also known for its upper-year interdisciplinary programs, particularly in contemporary studies, early modern studies, and the history of science and technology. In addition, the university has a journalism school that attracts students from across the world for its intensive graduate programs in journalism, writing, and publishing.
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