Born in Victoria, B.C. and a graduate of the University of Victoria's writing department, Ian Graham has been with the Thompson Citizen and Nickel Belt News since 2007, joining the newspaper as a sports reporter and photographer and being named editor in August 2014. Prior to coming to Thompson, he spent most of the previous five years abroad, working as an English as a Second Language teacher in South Korea from 2001 to 2003 before becoming a writer of English-language learning materials for an American-owned company based in the Philippines from 2004 to 2007.