Bill Gillespie is a retired award winning journalist and foreign correspondent with the CBC. He spent the first 15 years of his professional life as a journalist in Newfoundland, reporting for the CBC and hosting the TV current affairs program On Camera.

After covering Ontario politics, in 2001 Gillespie became CBC Radio's bureau chief in Moscow where he reported on President Vladimir Putin, travelled many times to Afghanistan to report on the American—led invasion and its aftermath, and to Iraq where he reported live from Bagdad's central square the day Saddam's Hussein's statue was pulled down.

Since leaving the CBC he has embarked on a new career making documentary films for the Canadian labour movement. He later coordinated a campaign by unions and public interest groups opposed to the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.