Sue Gardner was born on May 11,1967 and is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive.
14 Facts About Sue Gardner
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Sue Gardner was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.
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In May 2015, the Tor Project announced that Gardner would be assisting the project with the development of their long-term organizational strategy.
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Sue Gardner grew up in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an Anglican priest and a school principal.
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Sue Gardner received a degree in journalism from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
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In May 2007, Sue Gardner resigned from CBC, and shortly thereafter began consulting for the Wikimedia Foundation as a special advisor on operations and governance.
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In October 2009, Sue Gardner was named by The Huffington Post as one of ten "media game changers of the year" for the impact on new media of her work for Wikimedia.
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One of the issues that Gardner addressed while she was a Wikimedia Foundation executive director was gender bias on Wikipedia.
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Sue Gardner listed nine reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia, culled from comments by female Wikipedia editors:.
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On March 27,2013, Sue Gardner announced she would be leaving her position at the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Sue Gardner stated that the Wikimedia Foundation is doing well now but that the Internet is not, and that she planned to help in that area going forward.
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In 2013, Sue Gardner received an honorary doctorate from Ryerson University, her alma mater.
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Sue Gardner joined The Tor Project, Inc to develop a strategic plan, with support from First Look Media.
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In September 2018, Sue Gardner co-founded The Markup with Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson as a continuation of their work at ProPublica.