Jay Ingram
One of Canada's best-known science popularizers, Jay Ingram co-hosted and produced Daily Planet for over 20 years stepping down from his position in 2011. Ingram is not leaving the TV world just yet. By alleviating his regular duties, he plans to explore other Discovery Channel opportunities. He'll still provide content for Daily Planet as well, just in a contributor role instead of as co-host.
Ingram hosted CBC Radio's science program Quirks And Quarks from 1979 to 1992, earning him two ACTRA Awards, including one for Best Host. During the '80s, he was also Contributing Editor to Owl Magazine. He also hosted two radio documentary series, The Talk Show, about language, and Cranial Pursuits, about the brain. The Talk Show won a Science in Society Journalism Award. Following that, Ingram presented items on the brain for the CBC TV's The Health Show and contributed regular weekly science features for CBC Newsworld's Canada Live (1993-94).
He has been awarded the 1984 Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science, the 1986 Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his work popularizing science, and the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees: from Carleton University, McGill University, McMaster and King's College in Halifax.
Ingram has written eleven books, three of which have won Canadian Science Writers' Awards. His latest is Daily Planet: The Ultimate Books of Everyday Science. In 2009, Ingram was appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. He is an engaging, provocative speaker who can address complex, scientific issues in non-technical terms, making them interesting, relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences.
Client Testimonials:
"Ingram is a wizard at transforming complex curiosities of the natural and physical sciences into entertaining anecdotes."
The Edmonton Sun
"With his trademark wit and wonderment, Ingram makes the science of our lives accessible and fascinating."
Avalon Publishing Group Inc.
"Ingram . . . acts as a kind of cross between a clear-eyed journalist and a tongue-in-cheek comedian."
The Globe and Mail
One of Canada's best-known science popularizers, Jay Ingram co-hosted and produced Daily Planet for over 20 years stepping down from his position in 2011. Ingram is not leaving the TV world just yet. By alleviating his regular duties, he plans to explore other Discovery Channel opportunities. He'll still provide content for Daily Planet as well, just in a contributor role instead of as co-host.
Ingram hosted CBC Radio's science program Quirks And Quarks from 1979 to 1992, earning him two ACTRA Awards, including one for Best Host. During the '80s, he was also Contributing Editor to Owl Magazine. He also hosted two radio documentary series, The Talk Show, about language, and Cranial Pursuits, about the brain. The Talk Show won a Science in Society Journalism Award. Following that, Ingram presented items on the brain for the CBC TV's The Health Show and contributed regular weekly science features for CBC Newsworld's Canada Live (1993-94).
He has been awarded the 1984 Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science, the 1986 Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his work popularizing science, and the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees: from Carleton University, McGill University, McMaster and King's College in Halifax.
Ingram has written eleven books, three of which have won Canadian Science Writers' Awards. His latest is Daily Planet: The Ultimate Books of Everyday Science. In 2009, Ingram was appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. He is an engaging, provocative speaker who can address complex, scientific issues in non-technical terms, making them interesting, relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences.
Client Testimonials:
"Ingram is a wizard at transforming complex curiosities of the natural and physical sciences into entertaining anecdotes."
The Edmonton Sun
"With his trademark wit and wonderment, Ingram makes the science of our lives accessible and fascinating."
Avalon Publishing Group Inc.
"Ingram . . . acts as a kind of cross between a clear-eyed journalist and a tongue-in-cheek comedian."
The Globe and Mail
