Jan Wong

Jan Wong is a Canadian academic, journalist, and writer. Wong worked for The Globe and Mail, serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, when she returned to write from Canada. At the turn of the 21st century she was known for her Globe column Lunch with Jan Wong. She covered the Dawson College shooting in 2006 and her article was attacked by the public and even the prime minister. The Globe management did not back her and this caused her to have a bout of clinical depression. She was fired by the newspaper in 2007 without cause, but she had to sign a confidentiality agreement about the terms of the settlement. In 2012 she self-published the book Out of the blue about her time at the paper. In late 2014, The Globe successfully sued her for breaching the confidentiality agreement and she was ordered by the court to repay her settlement and court costs. After 2008, she took on various jobs including being a guest host on CBC Radio, and author of several best selling books. Into the 2020s she is employed as a professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She is married with two adult children and resides in both Toronto and Fredericton.