Mark MacKinnon is The Globe and Mail’s Senior International Correspondent. He has been internationally recognized for his coverage of the war in Syria, the rise of the so-called Islamic State, and the refugee crisis that followed. He was named Journalist of the Year at 2016 National Newspaper Awards for his 16,000-word story  The Graffiti Kids, which followed the lives of the teenagers who inadvertently started the war in Syria. His story “The Fearless” on the Ukrainian special forces team that rescued The Globe and Mail’s translators from Afghanistan—and the war they’ve fought since returning home to Ukraine—won the award for 2024 Story of the Year from the London-based Foreign Press Association. That feature is part of his comprehensive, human-driven reporting on the Russian war on Ukraine nominated for the 2025 National Newspaper Award in International Reporting. THe is the author of The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics, The China Diaries, an e-book of his train travels through the Middle Kingdom along with photographer John Lehmann. His essay, A view on the world, is included in A Nation’s Paper: The Glove and Mail in the Life of Canada, edited by John Ibbitson. In 2027, Penguin Random House will publish Fearless: At War with Ukraine’s Elite Special Forces. MacKinnon divides his time between London and Kyiv.

Website: Mark MacKinnon/The Globe and Mail