Jack Todd
photo: Terry Byrnes
Jack Todd is the sports columnist of the Montreal Gazette.
An American by birth, Todd left the U.S. in 1970 during the Vietnam War, after having worked for the Akron Beacon-Journal, Detroit Free Press and Miami Herald. He settled in Vancouver, where he was a general assignment reporter for the Vancouver Sun. After some years with Radio-Canada International in Montreal, Todd joined the Gazette in 1986 as a copy editor on the sports desk and spent four years as city columnist before moving to sports, where he has since covered two World Cup soccer tournaments and five Olympic Games.
Todd won the National Newspaper Award for sportswriting in 1999, an honour for which he has been nominated three times. His book, The Taste of Metal, was short-listed for a Governor General’s Award. The book went on to win the 2001 Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize.
In addition to his column duties, he is currently at work on a lengthy novel set in Nebraska and Wyoming during the 19th Century.
