Sue Gardner
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Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive.
She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets. In 2012, she was ranked as the 70th-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.
In 2013, she joined the board of Global Voices.
In May 2015, the Tor Project announced that Gardner would be assisting the project with the development of their long-term organizational strategy.
In 2018, she was announced as executive director of The Markup.
Gardner left this position in May 2019.
Early life
Gardner was born in Barbados. She grew up in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an Anglican priest and a school principal. She received a degree in journalism from Ryerson University.
Career
Gardner began working on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio in 1990, and spent more than a decade as a producer, reporter, and documentary writer for CBC Radio current affairs and Newsworld International, focusing on pop culture and social problems.
She succeeded Claude Galipeau as senior director of the CBC website and Internet platform, CBC.ca, growing its staff from 35 to 160 in March 2006.
Gardner resigned from CBC in May 2007 and began consulting for the Wikimedia Foundation as a special advisor on operations and governance. She was hired as the foundation's executive director in December 2007. She oversaw the company's growth over the next two years, including the addition of a fundraising team and the relocation of the headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to San Francisco, California. Gardner was listed by the Huffington Post as one of the year's ten "media game changers" for the impact on Wikimedia's new media in October 2009.
Gender bias on Wikipedia was one of Gardner's topics when she was a Wikimedia Foundation executive director. Nine reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia, culled from female Wikipedia editors' remarks:
Gardner revealed on March 27, 2013 that she would be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation in announcing her resignation. She said that the Wikimedia Foundation is doing well, but that the Internet is not, and that she wants to help in this area going forward. Gardner cites the "turning point" for her decision to move ahead as a result of her participation in the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, as well as other activist groups that "startled me wondering about the direction the Internet was taking and what part I could play."
Gardner's alma mater received an honorary doctorate from Ryerson University in 2013.
Lila Tretikov will replace Gardner, and the Wikimedia Foundation's executive director will take over on June 1, 2014, according to the release.
Gardner joined The Tor Project, Inc. to develop a strategic plan, with First Look Media's assistance. The Tor Project is a Massachusetts-based research-education nonprofit group founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and five others. The Tor Project is mainly responsible for the development of Tor anonymity applications. First Look Media, an American news company established by Pierre Omidyar in October 2013, was established as a platform for "original, independent journalism." The group is established as a tax-exempt charitable charity.
Gardner co-founded The Markup in September 2018 with Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson as a continuation of their ProPublica work. With $20 million in initial funds from Craig Newmark, the site will cover stories about "Big Tech" and its public relations. Gardner was initially expected to serve as executive director, Angwin as editor-in-chief, and Larson as managing editor, with a launch date set early 2019.
Gardner fired Angwin in April 2019 for being creative and organizational differences. Larson was named editor-in-chief after being named editor-in-chief. Five of the seven journalists on the staff resigned. Gardner wanted to turn The Markup into a "cause" rather than a "publication," Angwin said in a letter to Newmark, and Gardner said in a letter to Newmark, how negative they felt about tech firms and that using headlines such as "Facebook is a dumpster fire" might have been a "failure" rather than a "publication." Gardner replied that The Markup's mission had not changed. Gardner and Larson left The Markup the following month, and Angwin was reinstated as the website's editor-in-chief in August 2019.