Julian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist in print, TV, radio and on the Web.

He writes for The Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation newspaper, and is a veteran TV documentary writer and director as well as an accomplished newsroom trainer and the author of six widely-acclaimed books.

His latest book is Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and The Battle to Save Them. Publisher's Weekly called the book "a thorough, deeply affecting study … [that] strikes a rare balance between revealing trauma and hope."

His previous book, Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators has been hailed by reviewers as "riveting" "eye-opening and "gripping." His writings on child abuse have appeared on the front page of the New York Times, the cover of Maclean's magazine and the OpEd page of USA Today.

As a best-selling true crime writer, his books have sparked public debate, forced governments to review cases and have spawned TV programs and movies.

His previous book, One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online predators, was praised for being "riveting", "eye-opening" and "fine and gripping... an important book that ultimately calls on us to do what we can."

In 2006, the book he co-authored, Angels of Death: Inside the Biker's Global Crime Empire, was been hailed as "a devastating indictment of the gangs' drug-running and racketeering across three continents." It has been translated into four languages and sold in seven countries.

He also wrote the award-winning national bestseller Until You Are Dead: Steven Truscott's Long Ride Into History about Canada's most famous murder trial, which led to an official re-opening a 40-year-old case. His first book was White Hoods: Canada's Ku Klux Klan, an expose of racism in Canada which is still cited as the main source of the subject in the encyclopedias.

He has carried out investigative projects for the New York Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. In 2006, he directed a nine-month investigation for the New York Times and Discovery Times Channel called "Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists get the Bomb?" In 2007, he went to Baghdad for the New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to cover the war in Iraq. The result was "The Battle for Baghdad."

A recognized expert on the justice system and crime, Julian Sher has been a keynote speaker at several leading law enforcement conferences, including the International Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Investigators Association in San Diego in the fall of 2006, as well as the Vancouver Police Homicide Conference, the British Columbia Crown Prosecutors Conference, the Justice Institute which trains police recruits, the Association of Provincial Court Judges in Canada.

He has filmed, written and produced major documentaries across the globe. For 10 years, Julian Sher worked as an investigative TV producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's leading documentary show, "the fifth estate", from 1990 to 2000. He covered scandals, wars and corporate intrigue in South Africa, Somalia, Holland, France, England, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and the United States and Canada. He is a three-time nominee for a Gemini (Canada's equivalent of the Emmys for TV), and won a Gemini for Best Documentary in 1997. He also won a Governor General's award for Meritorious Public Service for uncovering miscarriages of justice.

Sher is also a web guru. He was the creator  of JournalismNet, ranked by Google as one of the world's top ten journalism sites on the web and he has trained journalists around the world to master the Internet as a tool for investigative reporting. 

On special assignment, Julian has also trained journalists in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria for the World Bank. He also consulted for the OECD in Paris and UNICEF in New York.

Before becoming a network TV producer, Julian was a TV reporter and producer in Montreal and a morning radio show producer and writer. In all, he has 16 years experience as a TV and radio broadcaster. 

Julian has been active in media and human rights issues. He is the former president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and is a current member of the advisory board of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, which monitors press freedoms around the world.

He is a graduate in Honours History from McGill University in Montreal where he currently makes his home.

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