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Marie Wadden (born 1955) lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is a Canadian broadcast journalist and author whose work with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) in Quebec and Newfoundland has been recognized with awards in Canada and the United States. Her radio documentary about the first successful raft crossing of the Atlantic Ocean won silver at the New York Radio Awards, while her television documentary "Honour Thy Father '' won a 1995 Chris Award from the Columbus International Film and Video Festival in Ohio. She was presented a Gabriel Award in Los Angeles for programming that seeks to "uplift and nourish the human spirit."

Wadden was an early advocate for Indigenous rights during her journalism career. She is the author of Nitassinan the Innu Struggle to Reclaim their Homeland, winner of the Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction in 1992, and Where the Pavement Ends: The Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation (2006) which was nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The research was funded by an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and the Toronto Star newspaper. Both books were published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver.

She collaborated with British anthropologist Hugh Brody on the National Film Board/Channel 4 documentary "Hunters and Bombers" that won first prize at the International Film Festival in Manheim-Heidelberg, Germany. From Boston and New Orleans, Wadden covered the U.S. Coast Guard inquiry into the Ocean Ranger disaster that killed 84 offshore oil rig workers in 1982. A TV series she subsequently produced from Norway on safety in the offshore oil industry won a national journalism award from the Canadian Petroleum Association. She has also written for the Globe and Mail and the National Post. She is currently working on a biography of William Wordsworth’s nephew, George Hutchinson, who was a 19th-century missionary in Labrador.

Non-Fiction Books
Nitassinan; The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland. (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991)

Where the Pavement Ends: The Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation. (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2008)

Selected Articles
“Flamed by Facebook" in the Globe and Mail, August 29, 2017.

“How I met Henri Beaudout,” in The Raftsman by Ryan Barnett and Dmitry Bondarenko. (Kirkus Press: October 2017)

"My Syrian Namesake" in the Globe and Mail, October 3, 2016.

"I Sat Down by CBC and Wept" in The Evening Telegram, June 30, 2014.

"So Close, Yet So Far" in The Evening Telegram, February 8, 2013.

"Gerry Cooney and His Tough Family Legacy in Placentia" from CBC.CA, Sept. 19, 2013.

"Let's Not Give Up on Natuashish" from CBC.CA October 5, 2013.

"Three Canadians, Two Kittens, One Raft" in The Globe and Mail, August 3, 2012.

“Aboriginal Women on the Frontline of an Addiction Crisis” in Changing Places. Edited by Jean Guthrie and Valerie Burton. (Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2011)

"Fund Inuit, Not Canadian, Arctic Sovereignty" in The Globe and Mail, August 18, 2009.

"Move Kashechewan at Its Peril" in The Toronto Star, December, 2006.

"Tragedy or Triumph: Canadian Public Policy and Aboriginal Addiction” in The Toronto Star. November 2006:

"Planes Overhead" in Harrowsmith Magazine,1988 (Nominated for The National Magazine Award).

"Local Hero; Aloyssus O'Brien" in Harrowsmith Magazine.1990.

Honours and Awards
2014 New York Festival Radio Award for “Atlantic Kon Tiki.”

2011 Holy Heart of Mary Regional High School “Founder’s Award.”

2011 Atlantic Journalism Award, Business Reporting, “Breaking the Ice; Greenland.”

2006 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.

2006 Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) Dave Rogers Award for Best Radio Feature.

2002 Canadian Association of Journalism, CIDA Fellowship.

2001 Atlantic Journalism Award, Best Radio Feature.

2000 U.S. Gabriel Award.

1995 Chris Award, Columbus, Ohio, International Film and Video Festival.

1992 Edna Staebler award for Creative Writing.

1988 Anik Award.

1985 Canadian Petroleum Association and Atlantic Journalism Award.

1979 Best Regional Documentary.