Sue Gardner

Current

Executive Director at Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Education

Ryerson University

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Sue Gardner’s Summary

Sue Gardner is Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia and nine other free-culture online informational projects. Wikipedia is one of the world's 10-most-popular websites, and has been called one of the world's five top brands.

Sue was formerly head of CBC.CA, Canada's largest and most popular news media site. It's the English-language site of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's national public broadcaster and one of the country's largest cultural institutions.

Since beginning her career in 1990 at the now-classic radio program As It Happens, Sue has worked in all forms of media to create high-quality, award-winning programming. As a journalist, she specialized in pop culture, social issues and media analysis, covering stories such as manipulation of the news media during the first Gulf War, the rise of gated communities in California, the racial implications of the return of the death penalty to New York, changing feminist attitudes towards pornography, the dawn of interactive media, and the rise and fall of rave culture in the UK.

Under her leadership at CBC.CA, the site more than doubled its audience, to more than 11 million total unique visitors monthly, and won dozens of awards, including an EPpy, multiple Online News Association awards, several Prix Italias and RTNDA awards, as well as awards from the Canadian New Media Association, Baddeck International New Media Festival, Computerworld, the Webbys, the New York Festival, VIDFEST, and Flash In The Can.

Sue is a member of the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, Women in Film and Television, the Canadian Association of Journalists and Canadian Women In Communications. She is a frequent judge and speaker at industry events.