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Michelle Shephard was born on 1972 in Canada, is a Canadian journalist (born 1972). Discover Michelle Shephard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

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1972

Michelle Shephard (born 1972) is an independent investigative reporter (previously with the Toronto Star newspaper), author and filmmaker.

She has been awarded the Michener Award for public service journalism and won Canada's top newspaper prize, the National Newspaper Award, three times.

1995

She began working at the Star in 1995 as a summer student, when she met her future husband Jim Rankin.

1999

In 1999, she came into possession of copies of convicted murderer Karla Homolka's application to transfer to the Maison Thérèse-Casgrain, run by the Elizabeth Fry Society, and published the story noting the halfway house's proximity to local schools, hours before the Canadian courts issued a publication ban on the information.

2001

On September 11, 2001, the day al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Shephard described going to the airport to fly to New York City, only to find all flights in North America had been ordered to land and no new flights were being allowed to take off.

So she and two other Toronto Star reporters drove to New York City, arriving at the Ontario/New York State border shortly before it too was shut down.

Covering 9/11 began her career as a national security reporter.

2004

In 2004, she co-hosted a Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement panel following up on the Star 's series on racial bias in the police force, subtitled "Stagnation, Progress or a Turn in the Wrong Direction?"

along with her husband and Scott Simmie.

2006

She was also thanked in the foreword of the 2006 book Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa by fellow Star reporter Linda Diebel, as well as Marina Nemat's 2008 Prisoner of Tehran.

In 2006, she attended a hostile environment training course in Virginia, in preparation for her overseas reporting.

Her foreign reporting from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia has included Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Djibouti, Kenya, Syria and Dubai.

She co-hosted a 2006 round table event with the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies with other Canadian journalists including Stewart Bell and Colin Freeze entitled "The Media and the Secret World".

2008

In April 2008, she co-hosted a lecture entitled "The Big Idea: The ICC, American Empire and the Search for the Rule of Law" with Erna Paris.

2010

In 2010, she was banned from Guantanamo along with Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, Globe and Mail's Paul Koring and CanWest reporter Steven Edwards for identifying an interrogator who had been convicted for his role in the death of an Afghan detainee in U.S. detention in Bagram.

The Pentagon lifted the ban following an outcry by various news outlets, including the New York Times, and an appeal by the Pentagon Press Association.

The Washington Post condemned the Pentagon for trying to exclude four "veteran" reporters with "a depth of knowledge."

2011

In 2011, she was an associate producer on a documentary called Under Fire: Journalists in Combat.

Her second book, Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone, was published in September 2011.

The book was nominated for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.

2013

In April 2013, she delivered the Atkinson Lecture on her years as a national security correspondent.

2014

She produced the National Film Board documentary, Prisoners of the Absurd, which premiered at Amsterdam's film festival in 2014.

2015

Shephard also co-directed a film based on her book about Omar Khadr, Guantanamo's Child, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015.

Shephard was the 2015 recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.

Michelle grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, and attended Thornhill Secondary School.

In June 2015 Shephard was awarded the prestigious year-long Atkinson fellowship.

The fellowship lasts a year and awards the fellow a grant of $75,000, and up to an additional $25,000 for research, to pursue a public policy issue of their choice.

2018

Shephard left the Toronto Star in July, 2018, when the paper closed its foreign news department.

She is the author of Guantanamo's Child, about the ordeal of Omar Khadr in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.

2019

In 2019 Shephard hosted Uncover: Sharmini, the fifth season of CBC's crime podcast Uncover.