Stephen J. Thorne

Background

About Stephen J. Thorne

I have over 40 years in journalism as an award-winning writer, editor, broadcaster and photographer with extensive national and international experience. I've covered race riots in Soweto, South Africa, flown into combat with Canadian, American and British troops in Afghanistan and dove in a mini-submarine to a previously undiscovered WWII shipwreck lying on the bottom of the North Atlantic. I rode the train with Pierre Trudeau's casket as he went home for the last time and wrote Yousuf Karsh's obituary for the international wire. I interviewed political leaders, Nobel laureates, grieving families, wounded soldiers, disaster survivors, artists, heroes, villains, celebrities, entertainers and sports icons. I've sat face-to-face with al-Qaida fighters and lunched with Taliban warlords. I've also been a speechwriter, web-content writer, editor and senior communications adviser in the public sector. I am now a staff writer, photographer and copy editor at Legion Magazine, Canada’s premiere journal of military history, veterans’ affairs and defence issues. My weekly online column, Frontlines, can be viewed at legionmagazine.com.