Sue Gardner

Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is the former Canadian executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco from 2007 to 2014. She was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets. She is currently the executive director of The Markup.

 Life and journalism career 
Gardner grew up in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of an Anglican minister and school principal.Wikipedians do it for love. Really . Globe and Mail Jul. 26, 2010 Gardner earned a degree in journalism from Ryerson University. She began her career on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio in 1990. She worked on the program As It Happens at first. Gardner  worked for more than a decade as a producer, reporter and documentary-maker for CBC Radio current-affairs. She also worked for Newsworld International. Her time at Newsworld dealt mainly with pop culture and social issues.From the Lavin Agency's profile .

In March 2006, she replaced Claude Galipeau as Senior Director. She was in charge of 150 people who worked on CBC.ca, the CBC website."CBC clicks online" , from the Toronto Star, July 19, 2006, via the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting archives.From Does CBC.ca run itself? a post on a blog about the CBC.

 Wikimedia and recent work 
In May 2007, Gardner left CBC. Soon after that, she started working with the Wikimedia Foundation. She helped as an advisor on how the foundation worked and how it was governed.Wikimedia Foundation press release, June 27, 2007.

In December 2007, she was hired as the Foundation's Executive Director."Sue Gardner Hired as Executive Director", Wikimedia Foundation press release  Over the next two years, the number of employees of the foundation grew. This included the addition of a fundraising team. She also guided the foundation as it moved its office from Tampa to San Francisco.

In October 2009, the Huffington Post said Gardner was as one of ten 'media game changers of the year'. They said this because of the effect she had on new media because of her work for Wikimedia.From the series of slides for the 10 HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Media? – Sue Gardner.

References

 Other websites 
 Sue Gardner's personal blog
 "Sue Gardner to lead Wikipedia"  Canadian Broadcasting Company
 Radio documentary by Gardner about Al Purdy, Canadian poet, for This Morning Sunday
 "Wikipedia struggles with funding" , United Press International
 Wikipedia's Librarian to the World Fast Company interview

Interviews
 Video interview with Gardner on CNET News 
 Audio (RAM-file) interview with Gardner  on radio station Sounds Like Canada, April 8, 2008
 Interview  with Gardner on the Wikipedia Weekly community podcast from Wikimania 2008
 Journalism is going to look different  (CanadaEast.com)

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