Jacquie McNish
Author and former newspaper writer
Jacquie McNish is an author and former senior writer at The Wall Street Journal and the Globe and Mail. She co-wrote Losing The Signal, the story of BlackBerry.
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Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
About Jacquie McNish
Jacquie McNish was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and grew up moving between suburbs in the United States and Canada. She built her career in Toronto and New York at The Wall Street Journal and the Globe and Mail, and she has won eight National Newspaper Awards. She has written or co-written four books, and three of them won Canada's National Business Book award. Losing The Signal, written with Sean Silcoff, traces the rise and fall of BlackBerry. It won the 2016 National Business Book award and made the 2015 shortlist for the Financial Times/McKinsey business book prize. Away from writing, she likes to cycle along Lake Ontario.