Vivian Smith

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Vivian Smith is an author, media consultant, writing instructor, and boater based in Victoria, British Columbia. Her 2015 book, Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love—and Leave—Their Newspaper Careers, is published by University of Toronto Press. She spent much of her daily journalism career at The Globe and Mail in Toronto and is a former editor of Boulevard magazine in Victoria. Smith is a sessional instructor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Photo by Anne Mullens

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