Chris Hannay

I am assistant editor in The Globe's Ottawa bureau, which means I work with bureau chief Robert Fife to direct our federal politics coverage and I fill in for him when he's away. I'm also the creator and co-author of the daily Politics Briefing newsletter (sign up here). I first worked at The Globe in Toronto in the summer of 2008 while still going to school. For the first few years I did just about everything – from page layout to writing stories – in almost every section of the paper. When The Globe created its first social-media team in 2012, I became the representative for the news department. It's there I co-created (with colleague Affan Chowdhry) one of my favourite projects: Election 2012: Canadians in America, an ambitious citizen journalism project that covered the U.S. election through the eyes of Canadian expats. (We were even featured on Harvard's Nieman Lab.) A year later I (briefly) let out my silly side with the video web series Chris vs. Chris. Later in 2012 I joined the politics team, and moved to Ottawa in early 2014 to work out of the parliamentary bureau. In addition to editing, I write my fair share of stories, often about the intersection of government and science or government and art. I have volunteered on the executive of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. I love to work election nights.