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Mark Bourrie

MARK BOURRIE holds a PhD in Canadian media and military history; he is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist and has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. He has written hundreds of freelance pieces for most of the country’s major magazines and newspapers, which have resulted in several awards and nominations.

Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs; media history and propaganda at Carleton University; and Canadian studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also working on a Juris Doctor degree.

Bourrie’s book The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two was the first examination of Canada’s wartime news-control system. It reached number six on the Maclean’s bestseller list. His academic paper “The Myth of the 'Gagged Clam': William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Press Relations,” published in Global Media Journal in 2010, is considered the authoritative analysis of the media strategies of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister. In 2011, Bourrie was invited to contribute to a collection of papers written by Canada’s top military historians. His essay “Harnessing Journalists to the War Machine” was published in 2012 in Canada and the Second World War.

Bourrie lives in Ottawa and is married to Marion Van de Wetering, a corporate lawyer working for the federal government. They have three children.

Books by Mark Bourrie

Crosses in the Sky

Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Big Men Fear Me

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Bush Runner

The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson

by (author) Mark Bourrie

The Killing Game

Martyrdom, Murder, and the Lure of ISIS

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Kill The Messengers

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Kill The Messengers

Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle

Fighting Words / Korea / Triumph at Kapyong / Deadlock in Korea / Cross-Border Warriors

by (author) Fred Gaffen, Dan Bjarnason, Ted Barris, Mark Bourrie & John Melady
foreword by John M. Rockingham

Fighting Words

Canada's Best War Reporting

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Fog of War, The

Censorship of Canada's Media in World War Two

by (author) Mark Bourrie

The Fog of War

Censorship of Canada's Media in World War II

by (author) Mark Bourrie & Mark Bourrie PhD.

Hemp

A Short History of the Most Misunderstood Plant & Its Uses

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Les Edifices du Parlement

French Version

by (author) Mark Bourrie
illustrated by Malak

Parliament Buildings

preface by Mark Bourrie
by (author) Malak

The Parliament Buildings

by (author) Malak Karsh
photographs by Malak
preface by Mark Bourrie

Flim Flam

Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists

by (author) Mark Bourrie

By Reason of Insanity

The David Michael Krueger Story

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Canada's Parliament Buildings

by (author) Mark Bourrie

Ninety Fathoms Down

Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes

by (author) Mark Bourrie