Festival: 2023 Jacquie McNish

2023 Knowlton Literary Festival

Jacquie McNish

Investigative journalist and author


Jacquie McNish has been on the ground covering major stories in Canada and the United States for more than 40 years. Her investigative articles with The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail have won multiple awards, including eight National Newspaper Awards.


McNish has also authored four bestselling books:

  • The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey’s Bay Hustle;
  • Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, with Sinclair Stewart;
  • The Third Rail; Confronting Our Pension Failures, with Jim Leech; and
  • Losing The Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry, with Sean Silcoff.


Three of her books have won National Business Book Awards.


Losing the Signal was adapted into the Blackberry, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2023 and is in theatres in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

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