User:Geo Swan/Rachel Giese

Rachel Giese is an award-winning Canadian journalist.

Giese has been an editor or columnist at: The Grid, The Walrus, the Toronto Star, Chatelaine, in addition to being published in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Canadian Business, Flare. She has worked as a television producer and writer for CityTV and the CBC. She also taught journalism at Ryerson University.

In 2010 the Toronto Star profiled Giese and her spouse's home ownership choices.

In 2014 the Ryerson Review of Journalism interviewed Giese about her most difficult interview.

Giese, a regular host or organizer at the International Federation of Authors, was first interviewed about her participation by the Globe and Mail in 2010.

In May 2017 the Globe and Mail described the pressure to find a replacement for Jonathan Kay, the outgoing editor of the influential Walrus magazine, who was not a white male. The Globe described Giese as one of the two top candidates. It described her as the in-house favourite at the Walrus, quoting Richard Poplak, a frequent contributor, who called her "the best possible candidate for the job in the country, bar none."

In 2017 Giese published a book, on child-rearing, entitled Boys: What It Means to Become a Man in the 21st Century. Her book was one of the five candidates nominated for the annual Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, which has $25,000 award.

CBC News flagship public affairs radio show, As it happens, interviewed Giese about her book on September 3, 2018.

Giese was chose to be Xtra's editorial director on October 10, 2018.

Giese was one of the Jury members chosen to select the winner of the Canadian Journalism Foundation's 2019 Landsberg Award.