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Alexandra Posadzki is an award-winning business journalist based in Toronto and the author of the instant #1 national bestseller, Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire. She covers financial crime and cybercrime for The Globe and Mail.

Previously, Alexandra was The Globe’s telecom reporter. Her industry-leading coverage of the dramatic power struggle at Rogers Communications Inc. was recognized with several Canada Best in Business Awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, including gold medals in the “scoop” and “beat reporting” categories. Throughout the two-year long regulatory review of Rogers’ $20-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc., investors came to rely on Alexandra’s unparalleled coverage and consistent scoops.

Before taking on the telecom beat, Alexandra was The Globe’s capital markets reporter and wrote extensively about Canada’s fledgling cryptocurrency industry, including the collapse of Canada’s largest virtual currency exchange, QuadrigaCX. Her contributions to The Globe’s award-winning coverage of the massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme led to her being featured in a 2022 Netflix documentary called Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King.

Prior to joining The Globe in 2017, Alexandra spent three years as a business reporter at the Canadian Press newswire, where she wrote about banking, real estate and the burgeoning cannabis industry, and produced a series of investigative stories on Canada’s lax anti-money laundering regime. She has also worked at the Toronto Star, Business News Network and Global News.

Alexandra is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Master of Journalism program and has an honours B.A. in psychology and literature from York University. She has also completed the Canadian Securities Course. She got her start in journalism at York University’s student newspaper, the Excalibur.

Alexandra’s literary agent is Martha Webb of CookeMcDermid.