Melissa Tait is a visual journalist for The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto. She films, photographs, animates and edits visuals for stories across the organization. Melissa joined The Globe in 2015 after stints as multimedia editor at the Winnipeg Free Press and reporter/photographer at the Waterloo Region Record. She holds a diploma in photojournalism from Loyalist College and a BA in International Development from the University of Guelph. She was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.
Melissa has won two National Newspaper Awards: One in 2021 sports photography for a photograph of the Canadian women’s Olympic soccer gold-medal win and in 2019 for breaking news on the RCMP manhunt for murder suspects in northern Manitoba. In addition to other NNA citations her work has been recognized by the Digital Publishing Awards, the National Pictures of the Year Awards from the News Photographers Association of Canada and the Online Journalism Awards.
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