Cecil Rosner has been a professional journalist in Canada for the last four decades, concentrating for most of that time on reporting and supervising investigative journalism projects. He has taught the principles of investigative journalism widely, and is the author of the definitive history of the genre in Canada – Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada, published by Oxford University Press. He was previously managing editor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Manitoba, which includes supervising an enterprise and investigative team for the CBC network.

Cecil’s work has been recognized in many ways over the years. He has won Michener and Gemini Awards for his journalism, medals from the New York and Columbus Film Festivals, along with many other distinctions. He has taught the principles of investigative journalism in seminars and workshops across Canada and abroad for the last 20 years, and currently teaches a course in Investigative Journalism at the University of Winnipeg. He holds an MA in journalism from the University of Western Ontario. He is also the co-author of When Justice Fails: the David Milgaard Story, which chronicled the story of a man who spent 23 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murder.