Ian Brown (journalist)

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Ian Brown (born 1954) is a Canadian journalist and author.

He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View From Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books and Sunday Morning. He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.

Brown has also published two books, Freewheeling (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life.

He is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.