Doug Saunders
| Doug Saunders | |
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1967 (age 48–49) Hamilton, Ontario |
| Occupation | Writer |
Douglas Richard Alan "Doug" Saunders (born 1967) is a British-Canadian journalist and author, and columnist for The Globe and Mail, a newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. He is the newspaper's international-affairs columnist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent formerly based in London and Los Angeles.
Biography
Saunders, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Canada, was born in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, educated in Toronto at York University. In his early twenties he was the Ottawa-based national bureau chief and writer for the Canadian University Press wire service.
In the early 1990s he built a career in what was then the new field of online research and computer-assisted reporting for various Canadian journalists. He briefly worked as an editor for the left-leaning This Magazine.[1] In 1995 he joined the Globe and Mail as an editorial writer and feature writer. In 1999, he became the paper's correspondent in Los Angeles. He moved to London to become the paper's European Bureau Chief in 2004. He has spent extensive time writing from Europe, Turkey, Iran, the Indian subcontinent, Asia and North Africa, including substantial reporting from Libya, Egypt and Tunisia during the Arab revolutions of 2011, and in Ukraine during its 2013-14 upheavals.[2] His is married to the writer Elizabeth Renzetti and lives in Toronto.
His column, Reckoning, appears on Saturdays in the newspaper's Focus section. From 2012 to 2015, he also served as the newspaper's online opinion editor, a position he used to create the Globe Debate online opinion-and-debate portal (now known as Globe Opinion).[3]
Saunders has won the National Newspaper Award on five occasions: in 1998, 1999, and 2000 for critical writing; and in 2006 and 2013 for column writing.[4] In 2008, he was shortlisted for the award in international reporting, for a series of investigative articles on the state of the middle class around the world. He has also been shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Awards, in Public Issues.[5]
Books
He is the author of the book Arrival City (2011), in which he visited 20 locations on five continents to study the effects of the final wave of rural-urban migration on the cities of the world. It was the winner of the $35,000 Donner Prize, one of the five finalists for the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize, and for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.[6] In 2015, Arrival City was on the 15-book longlist for the CBC's Canada Reads competition.[7]
References
- ↑ "Does This still matter?". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ "Doug Saunders". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ "My Latest Gig: Passing the Baton". Doug Saunders. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ "Multiple Winners". National Newspaper Awards.
- ↑ http://www.sources.com/SSR/Docs/Winners1995-MagazineAwards.htm/
- ↑ "The Writers' Trust of Canada - Prize History".
- ↑ "Arrival City". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
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