Doug Saunders

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Douglas Richard Alan Saunders (born 1967) is a well-known Canadian journalist, a weekly columnist and daily reporter for the Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. He is the newspaper's European Bureau Chief, based in London, in the United Kingdom.

His journalism has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada's counterpart to the U.S. Pulitzer Prize, on four occasions. He won the prize a record three consecutive times, in 1998, 1999 and 2000, for critical writing. And in 2006, he won a fourth award, honouring him as the best columnist in Canada during 2005. He has also been shortlisted for Canada's National Magazine Award.

His column, Reckoning, appears on Saturdays in the newspaper's Focus section, and is generally devoted to intellectual and ideological concepts behind the news, from a political perspective that is broadly rooted in social democracy and liberalism.

Saunders was born in the city of Hamilton, Ontario educated in and around Toronto including a seven-year stint at York University. He has lived on two occasions in Britain and once in the United States of America. He first achieved journalistic notice in his early twenties as the Ottawa-based national bureau chief and writer for the Canadian University Press wire service. In the early 1990s he was a writer and editor for the left-leaning Canadian monthly This Magazine, and a researcher and freelancer for various Canadian journalists. In 1995 he joined the Globe and Mail as an editorial writer and feature writer. In 1996, he created a specialized writing position on media, culture, advertising and popular phenomena. In 1999, he became the paper's correspondent in Los Angeles, noted for his writing on changes in U.S. society. He began reporting from London, writing extensively on Europe, north Africa and Asia, in 2004.