David Hayes, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

David Hayes is an award-winning journalist who has written or co-written four books as well as scores of magazine articles for Canada's premiere publications, including Saturday Night, the Globe and Mail, Report on Business, Canadian Business, Chatelaine, Equinox and Toronto Life, where he served as the magazine's media columnist in the late 1980s.

A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University's journalism program, he began his freelancing writing career in 1981. Since then, Hayes has written on a variety of subjects, although his area of specialization has been media/communications and the arts. His nonfiction books include The Lost Squadron (1994), a dramatic account of a group of American adventurers who unearthed a squadron of World War II fighter planes from beneath the Greenland icecap; Power and Influence: The Globe and Mail and the News Revolution (1992), an in-depth analysis of Canada's national newspaper and the changing role of news reporting in the information age; and No Easy Answers: The Trial and Conviction of Bruce Curtis (1986), a detailed investigation into a murder spree by two teenaged boys. He has also co-written a book with international figure skating choreographer Sandra Bezic called The Passion to Skate: An Intimate View of Figure Skating (1996).

Hayes also teaches magazine writing in Ryerson Polytechnic University's School of Journalism.

Contributor to:
Taking Risks (contributor)