Interplay Creative Media

Gord McIntosh spent 30 years in journalism, working in newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Web, before becoming a consultant in media training, communications strategy, issue management, social marketing and government relations in Ottawa in 2001.

Gord has coached several cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament and CEOs on how to deal with the media. He has also given seminars on how to make the media an ally in messaging.

In his journalism career, he won two National Newspaper awards, spent 14 years on Parliament Hill and was managing editor at a daily newspaper. As a senior parliamentary reporter with The Canadian Press, Gord covered political, economic and business issues, including the steel industry and trade. He continues as a columnist for PR Canada online magazine and Investment Executive, a publication for the investment community, on politics, government, trade and the economy. He is graduate of the Canadian Magazine Association Editor’s Course at Simon Fraser University.

Gord also works as a speech and ghost writer.

In 2002 he authored the official Elections Canada media handbook and has written for more than two dozen magazines, including Readers Digest, MacLean’s, Canadian Business and Canadian Lawyer.

In New Media, Gord has worked as a content consultant with MethWatch.ca, a partnership of several private sector organizations to stop the spread of meth amphetamine abuse among youth, and PatientsFirst.ca, a pharmaceutical industry sponsored web site devoted to Canadian health care policy.

Gord is a director of the Government Relations Institute of Canada, past president of the Ottawa chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, a member of the Fundraising Committee of St. Mary’s University and volunteer in marketing/communications with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Ottawa.