Andrew McIntosh

Andrew graduated from the Journalism BA program in 1996, and is a three-time winner of Canada’s National Newspaper Award for spot news, business reporting and investigative reporting. He has been an NNA finalist three other times. Andrew's work has also won him three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards for outstanding investigative reporting.

After stints at The Gazette of Montreal, The Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail and National Post,  Andrew moved to Sacramento, California in 2005 to join The Sacramento Bee as an investigative reporter, public records and Freedom of Information Act specialist and member of its Capitol Bureau.

Andrew won the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California 2007 Excellence in Investigative Reporting award for a five-part series on flaws in the state’s licensing and enforcement system for paramedics and emergency medical technicians. He shared two California Journalism Awards in 2006 and 2009 for stories about conflicts of interest and fraud in the California Highway Patrol’s contracts and an exposé of serious problems with the state's unemployment insurance call centres.

His 2008 investigative series on design flaws, deaths and thousands of injuries caused by air-powered nail guns to both consumers and construction professionals was named a finalist in the Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards in 2008 and a finalist for the Washington DC-based Understanding Government’s Preventive Journalism Awards. It also won a Society of American Business Writers and Editors Award.

Andrew has taught at Carleton University's Graduate School of Journalism and given seminars on investigative reporting methods and access to information laws at journalism conferences across North America for two decades. He is the investigations desk editor at the QMI Agency, a newly created, multimedia news service of Quebecor Media.

Andrew received the Department of Journalism's Distinguished Alumni award in 2005.