Shannon Proudfoot is a news editor in The Globe and Mail’s Ottawa office.
A feature film through nature, he loves the hidden complexities, the human aspect of politics, and the big news moments: not just what happened, but also what was seen and felt, who made it possible, and why. An incurable “process enthusiast” believes that everything is desirable if you look long enough and ask enough questions to understand how it works. Shannon grew up in a working-class family circle in Sault Ste. Marie. Marie. Marie can’t seem to shake off her fascination with how elegance figures in public life or, more often, how we forget about it.
Prior to joining the Globe, he was the leader of Maclean’s Ottawa bureau and wrote for Sportsnet magazine, Postmedia News and the Ottawa Citizen.