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David Milstead

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Denver, Toronto
As seen in: Kiplinger, MSN, Yahoo Finance, Report on Business Magazine, The Decibel, The Globe and Mail, Flipboard, The Local (Sweden), Tulsa World, Vancouver is Awesome, Magzter Inc. and
Covers:  Investments, accounting and financial reporting, executive compensation, corporate governance, public pensions and taxes.
Doesn't Cover: Non-investing personal finance
Writings on financial shenanigans, accounting, compensation, governance, and many, many baseball tweets.
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David Milstead’s Biography

I write about the complex financial topics few other journalists care to. I specialize in investments, accounting and financial reporting, executive compensation, corporate governance, public pensions and taxes. Most recently, I wrote for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. I concluded work there in April 2025.

I have won nine national business journalism awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) as an individual or as member of a team and have been a finalist or winner five times in SABEW's Canadian contest, including from 2022 to 2024 for column writing.

In 2022, my Globe and Mail colleagues and I won Canada's National Newspaper Award for investigations and the country’s highest prize for journalism, the Michener Award, for stories on the Catholic Church’s relationship to the country’s residential schools for Indigenous children. Other colleagues and I were finalists in 2022 for the National Newspaper Award for politics coverage for a project on the government’s COVID wage-support program.

An economics major, I ran multiple regressions to examine compensation, and I've been using Excel spreadsheets in my reporting for more than two decades. I was a "data journalist" years before the phrase became popular. I have taught seminars for journalists on securities filings, compensation and financial reporting at conferences of SABEW and Investigative Reporters & Editors.

I am a user of the Bloomberg terminal, S&P CapitalIQ (Global Market Intelligence), Morningstar Direct, AlphaSense, LSEG Workspace (Refinitiv Eikon), EDGAR, Canada's SEDAR and SEDI, and other databases.

I also passed the Level I exam of the Chartered Financial Analyst program in December 2007.

In addition to writing and analysis, I have the real-world management experience of serving as president of the Denver Press Club from 2016 to 2018. This was my second turnaround of the Club in just over a decade. The Press Club was insolvent when I became treasurer in 2006. By 2008, its debt was refinanced and its losses were cut. In 2016, I returned as president to solve a revenue problem and the Club is now more vital than it's been in years.