David Hayes
Location:
Toronto, ON
Styles:
Columns, Copywriting: Print, Essays, Features, Ghostwriting, How-To, Humour, Investigative Reporting, Personal Journalism, Profiles, Proposals, Service: Health & Family, Service: Lifestyle, Service: Personal Finance & Business
Subjects:
Arts, Aviation, Books & literature, Business, Communication technologies, Culture & community, Design, Education, Entertainment (film, television, theatre), Health & medicine, Information & communication technologies, Law & crime, Leisure goods & activities, Marketing, Men, Music, Non-profit, Politics, Publishing, Recreation & leisure, Seniors & retirement, Sex and relationships, Society
Bio:
David Hayes is an award-winning freelance journalist, author, editor and teacher. A generalist, his special areas of interest are culture, media, social issues and advertising/marketing/branding. A long-time instructor, later faculty member, at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, today he teaches Advanced Feature Writing in Ryerson’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Studies. He also has lectured and given workshops on various aspects of writing and journalism to a variety of organizations.
Publications/Client List:
- Toronto Life
- ROB Magazine
- Reader’s Digest
- Chatelaine
- The Walrus
- Saturday Night
- National Post Business
- The Globe and Mail
- The Toronto Star
- The New York Times Magazine
Books:
- The Lost Squadron, (Hyperion/The Madison Press Ltd., 1994)
- Power And Influence: The Globe And Mail And The News Revolution, (Key Porter Books Ltd., 1992)
- No Easy Answers: The Trial And Conviction Of Bruce Curtis, (Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1986)
- The Passion To Skate: An Intimate View Of Figure Skating, (Turner Publishing, Inc., 1996)
Other Projects:
Ghostwriting/co-writing/substantive editing of books.
Awards:
- 2009 – Amnesty International Media Award • LOCAL ALTERNATIVE PRINT category “Abandoned in Canada” (Chatelaine, Sept. 2009)
- 2008 – National Magazine Award • HONOURABLE MENTION (Society) “The Sins of the Mother” (Chatelaine, Sept. 2008) • HONOURABLE MENTION (Investigative Reporting) “The Sins of the Mother” (Chatelaine, Sept. 2008) • HONOURABLE MENTION (Arts & Entertainment) “Who's the Boss?" (Toronto Life, February 2008)
- 2007 – National Magazine Award • HONOURABLE MENTION (Investigative Reporting) “Notes on a Scandal” (Toronto Life, May 2007)
- 2006 – National Magazine Award • HONOURABLE MENTION (One of a Kind) “The Prisoner” (Toronto Life, April 2006)
- 2002 – National Magazine Award • GOLD (Business) “Song Corpse” (Toronto Life, Feb. 2002) • HONOURABLE MENTION (Arts & Entertainment) “The Boys in the Brand” (National Post Business, March 2002) • HONOURABLE MENTION (Words & Pictures) “Little Kabul” (Toronto Life, Oct. 2002)
- 2001 – National Magazine Award • HONOURABLE MENTION (Arts & Entertainment) “Riding the Next Wave” (Saturday Night, Jan. 20, 2001)
- 1998 – National Magazine Award • HONOURABLE MENTION (Business) “Fear Itself” (Toronto Life, Oct. 1998)
- 1993 – National Magazine Award • HONOURABLE MENTION (Society) “The Dance, the Firebombs and the Clash of Cultures” (Toronto Life, Oct. 1992)
- 1987 – National Magazine Award • SILVER (Business) “What’s Black and White and May or May Not Be Read All Over?” (Toronto Life, Dec. 1987)
- 1984 – Author’s Award - Canadian Periodical Publishers’ Assoc. • GOLD (Business) “Who Killed Cockfield Brown?” (Saturday Night, Feb. 1984)
- Resident, ARTS JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The Banff Centre: School of Fine Arts; Banff, Alta (June 1993)
Samples:
- Notes on a scandal – Toronto Life, May 2007
- The Making of Michael Bublé – Saturday Night, April 2005
- Lines in the Desert – Saturday Night, December 1997
- Abandoned in Canada – Chatelaine, October 2009
- Moses Znaimer’s New Mission – Report on Business Magazine, September 2009
- The Boys in the Brand – National Post Business, March 2002
