Jackson Proskow

Washington Bureau Chief

Jackson Proskow brings his lifelong passion for news and current affairs to Global National as Washington Bureau Chief. 

His expansive reporting career has taken him across Canada, the United States and around the world. He has covered major news events from American presidential elections, countless hurricanes, mass shootings, and has reported from earthquake-devastated Turkey in 2023, from Nepal in 2015, as well as covering the 2011 Royal Wedding in London.  

His reporting has been profiled in major media outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC News and Esquire magazine. 

He has put his love of investigative journalism to work with Global News, helping to uncover serious structural flaws with Toronto’s elevated Gardiner Expressway, prompting a city-wide debate about the future of the road and worked on a documentary that examined a widely used pesticide that is suspected of harming honeybees.  

A graduate from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and later earned a diploma in Broadcast Journalism, with Honours, from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). 

After graduating, Jackson joined Global Lethbridge as a reporter and weekend anchor. He then made the jump to Ontario in 2005, moving to CHCH TV in Hamilton as a reporter and videographer, and then joining the Global Toronto team in 2006. Jackson was on the front lines of Toronto’s biggest news stories covering the City Hall beat where he asked Mayor Rob Ford the tough question that led to his confession of having used crack cocaine, sparking an international media frenzy. 

Jackson’s work has been honoured with several major awards, including the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow award for outstanding investigative journalism for the series Gardiner Expressway, Trouble Overhead. The series also earned Jackson and the Global News team the RTDNA Dan McArthur Award and Digital Media Award. 

Jackson lives in Washington, D.C., and loves to travel, run, and explore Washington’s restaurant scene.