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RHIANNON RUSSELL

Journalist. Fact-checker. Writer for hire.

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ABOUT

Rhiannon is a freelance journalist based in Whitehorse, Yukon. She's written for The Walrus, Up Here, Maclean’s, Outside, Canadian Running, Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, and Canadian Living, among other publications.

She also works as a fact-checker, and has fact-checked stories for Hazlitt, The Walrus, Maclean's, Toronto Life, and Style at Home.

In her spare time, Rhiannon likes long-distance running, mountain biking, camping, and participating in dog sports with her border collie mix Zoe.

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WORK

DO NOT DISTURB, CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC

January 2024

THE NORTHERN EXPOSURE, MACLEAN'S

October 2023

THE CABIN BY THE LAKE, HAZLITT

December 2022

GOD TOLD HER TO SPEND 40 DAYS IN THE WOODS—SO SHE DID, CHATELAINE

December 2022

NUNAVUT IS WRITING THE BIGGEST LAND USE PLAN IN THE WORLD, THE NARWHAL

January 2022

THE DREAM MAKERS, UP HERE

Nov/Dec 2021

HOW TO FIX THE NORTH'S BIGGEST PROBLEM, UP HERE

Sept/Oct 2021

THE ORIGINAL NORTH, UP HERE

March/April 2021

BACK FROM THE BRINK, UP HERE

Summer 2020

THE SHINY NEW UNIVERSITY IN CANADA'S NORTH, UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS

June 2020

HOW MATTHEW LIEN TOOK A MUSICAL REVOLUTION FROM YUKON TO TAIWAN—AND BACK, MACLEAN'S

February 2019

HOW HILLARY ALLEN OVERCAME A TRAUMATIC INJURY, OUTSIDE

June 2018

HELL & BACK, CANADIAN LIVING

June 2018

A HIGH-STAKES LAND-USE BATTLE AT THE HEART OF THE YUKON, THE WALRUS

April 2017

CHUG, RUN, REPEAT, THE WALRUS

July/August 2016

HOME TRUTHS, MAISONNEUVE

Nominated for a National Magazine Award
January 2016

©2020 by Rhiannon Russell.

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