Bio

Deborah Waters Gyapong’s journalism career spans 20 years in television, print and radio, including 12 years as a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s television news and current affairs programming. She has produced, written and directed documentaries, newscasts and weekly current affairs programs. Her half-hour documentary about the conflict between a schizophrenic and his family, Robbie’s Story, won the Atlantic Film Festival’s journalism award in 1988.

In 1999, her last assignment at the CBC was as senior producer of Ottawa’s supper hour newscast Newsday, hosted by Peter Van Dusen. Before that she helped produce CBC Newsworld’s On the Line with Patrick Conlon; she wrote and produced Week’s End with Kirk LaPointe, and The Week Cross Canada with Kathryn Wright. She produced and directed Prince Edward Island’s CBC supper hour news program Compass, as well as CBC’s coverage of the PEI election in 1989.

In 2000, she signed on as a senior communications advisor for the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons, serving under Stockwell Day and John Reynolds.

In 2002, she established Best Way Communications to provide writing, editing, project management and consulting advice to authors, businesses and organizations as well as to provide an umbrella for her fiction writing and critiquing.

Deborah was born in Massachusetts. She obtained a B.A. from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, spending her senior year at Dartmouth College on an exchange program. She majored in sociology.