Michael Bate (born c. 1947) is a Canadian media entrepreneur and one of the founders of the Ottawa edition of gossip magazine Frank.
In 1989, Bate became a business partner with David Bentley to expand Frank from its Halifax roots by launching an Ottawa edition.
Bate defended the piece as an attempt to show that the unpopular prime minister was exploiting his daughter for political gain.
[5] In an interview with The Globe and Mail in May 2013, he said the new Frank would have a metered paywall, which would enable readers to read a few stories before having to pay "about 50 cents a day, or $15 a month."
Bate pointed to Andrew Sullivan's The Dish, which instituted a metered paywall earlier this year, as a financial model for the new Frank.