Ellen Roseman
Canadian journalist
Ellen Roseman (born July 1947) is a Canadian writer, journalist and lecturer specializing in personal finance and consumer issues. She currently writes a column handling consumer complaints for the Toronto Star and teaches at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. She has been an editor and columnist for the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. She is the author of a number of books and co-author with Phil Edmonston of The Canadian Consumers’ Survival Book. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and is married to Edward Trapunski. She has two children.
Journalism career
Roseman was born in July 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. She received a B.A. in 1968 from McGill University, where she was a reporter and features editor for the McGill Daily student newspaper. She received an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1969. Her journalism career began in 1969 at Maclean-Hunter in Toronto where she covered women’s wear at Style magazine and won two Kenneth R. Wilson awards for business writing.
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