Paul MacNeill

Background

About Paul MacNeill

Paul MacNeill is a second-generation publisher of community newspapers, talking head for CBC television, and builder of community. He has won more than 60 regional, national and international awards for investigative journalism and commentary. In 2022 his flagship publication, Eastern Graphic, was a finalist for Canada’s most prestigious journalism honour, the Governor-General’s Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism. In the same year the Graphic won the C.F. Jackman Award, Canadian Journalism Foundation’s highest honour. As well the paper was named Canada’s Best Community Newspaper. He is an executive member of the Michener Award Foundation Board of Directors, the first community journalist to join the body, as well as the Canadian Journalism Collective Board of Directors, responsible for distributing payments to Canadian publishers under terms of the Online News Act. He has volunteered with Journalists for Human Rights in Kenya and is a member of the Community Foundation of PEI Board of Directors. Author John Demont featured MacNeill in his book, A Good Day's Work, published by Penguin Random House. MacNeill is a leading voice on the vital importance local journalism plays in Canadian democracy, as well as the effort to ensure its sustainable future. His proudest accomplishment is raising two daughters into Powerhouse Women.