Elizabeth Mcsheffrey

Elizabeth McSheffrey is a journalist from Ottawa and an online reporter for Global BC in Vancouver. She specializes in long reads, investigations and the intersection between politics, business and human rights.

Over the past decade, Elizabeth has worked across the country and around the world, filing from eight countries in Central America and Africa on everything from grassroots mining resistance to Uganda’s burgeoning film industry. She recently travelled to the Vatican for Global News to cover a historic Indigenous delegation pushing Pope Francis for reconciliation and worked as an instructor for Journalists for Human Rights in Tunisia. 

Elizabeth joined the Global News network on television in Halifax in 2018 before returning to her roots as a writer. She has previously worked as an investigative journalist for the National Observer and a media trainer for Journalists for Human Rights' Indigenous Reporters Program and Misinformation Project.

She is the recipient of three RTDNA awards and a Canadian Online Publishing Award, and has been a finalist or co-finalist for awards from the Michener Foundation, the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, and the Canadian Hillman Prize.

Elizabeth is on the board of directors at World Press Freedom Canada. Find her on Twitter at @emcsheff