K. Jill Rigby has been working
in the field of journalism since 1978. Currently, as the Contributing Travel Editor for More Magazine Canada...

she writes a monthly Travel News page and feature stories on a variety of subjects. Previously, she was a Senior Editor at Cottage Life magazine.

For 15 years, Ms. Rigby was the Travel Editor for Sun Media. She was responsible for assembling a bi-weekly travel section read by more than three-quarter million people. In addition, she penned a weekly column and ran regular feature stories on her travels around the world that were illustrated with her own photographs. Ms. Rigby has visited every continent and lost count of the number of countries she has profiled.

She has made frequent television and radio appearances on Canada AM, CBC Newsworld, and other shows that often integrated travel segments into their programming. She was also chosen to host a short film on Toronto that was shown in hotel rooms throughout the city. Although Ms. Rigby began at The Toronto Star as an entertainment writer and general assignment reporter (kudos include an exclusive interview with the exiled Shah of Iran), she quickly moved into television as an on-air reporter with CBC News in Vancouver. Yearning for more experience in television production, she attended the Banff School of Fine Arts where she leaned to edit, direct live to tape, etc. She then moved to Paris to assume an Associate Producer role on the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not television series, which was filming throughout Europe. Returning to Toronto, she worked with CFTO-TV as a Production Manager administering multi-million dollar budgets for a wide range of shows including the Miss Canada Pageant and Billy Graham Crusades.

Ms Rigby has a Masters Degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York City and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in English and Philosophy. She speaks English and French and has a working knowledge of Spanish and Italian.