Robyn Urback (born 1988)
Early life and education
Urback is a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is Jewish, and attended Vaughan Road Academy in Toronto.
[ "Annual Report to the Community 2015-2016," JEWISH
FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO.] While studying journalism at Ryerson University, she was presented with the 2008 Albert E. Wadham Memorial Award as well as the 2008 Rolf Lockwood Scholarship for Excellence in Business Magazine feature writing.
She graduated from Ryerson in 2010 with a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours).
Career
By 2010, Urback was contributing opinion articles to
Maclean's Magazine, at first concentrating on student issues.
[ "Queen’s Remembrance Day Scandal: Maclean’s Top 10 Story for 2010". Kingston Herald, Steve Gerard, 2011/01/03.][Katie Toth. "In defence of offense". Dalhousie Gazette, February 10, 2011] Urback later began to contribute articles and commentary to major news outlets about a variety of topics, including women's issues,
[ "The Middle East and North Africa’s rape culture". Prince Arthur Herald, 2016-01-11 Barbara Kay.] crime,
[ "Jian Ghomeshi Verdict: Not Guilty On All Counts". ET Canada, By Brent Furdyk. 24 Mar 2016] local interest topics,
[ "Neighbourhood News: Anniversaries, Awards & Ale". Corktown, May 7, 2012] politics
[ "CBC Opinions: boldly defending the status quo". Canadian Association of Labour Media, Nov 14 2016 Nora Loreto] and world affairs.
[ "National Affairs by Claire Hoy — Security Council membership no prize". Caledon Citizen, March 25, 2016]
By 2013 her work was being published regularly as a columnist in the National Post, where she also became an editorial board member.[ "Bungled Jian Ghomeshi investigation playing out at taxpayers’ expense". Financial Post, Howard Levitt | November 10, 2014]
In 2016 Urback was hired as an opinion columnist and opinion section producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[ "CBC opinion page a good thing". William Watson, November 22, 2016][ "CBC joins a crowded conversation with new online opinion section". Simon Houpt, The Globe and Mail November 11, 2016] She worked there through 22 October 2019.
This lists Urback's latest opinion column for CBC as 22 October 2019.
She has been working for The Globe and Mail, where she is a current affairs columnist, since 2019.
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