The Globe and Mail

Doug Saunders is the chief of the Globe and Mail's London-based European Bureau, writes the weekly Reckoning column in the Focus section as well as daily reports and weekly features on European issues and international social and political trends. He has been a writer with the Globe since 1995.

He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and educated in Toronto. After early success in magazines and journalistic research, he first worked for the Globe and Mail as a general news reporter, then as an editorial writer and feature writer. In 1996, he joined the weekend section where he created a specialized writing position on media, culture, advertising and popular phenomena. In 1999, he became the paper's Los Angeles bureau reporter, covering both social and political stories in the American west and the broader developments in wider U.S. society.

He has won the National Newspaper Award, the Canadian counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on four occasions, including an unprecedented three consecutive awards for critical writing in 1998-2000, and an award honouring Reckoning as Canada’s best column in 2006. He has also won the Stanley McDowell Prize for writing and has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award.

In 2002, he returned to Toronto, where he took a position as a roving international-affairs writer. He launched a column in the Focus section aimed at examining developments in the world of intellectual and political ideas, keyed to current news developments.

He began working in the European bureau in 2004. Aside from his coverage of European affairs, he has done extensive writing from the Middle East, Russia and the Indian subcontinent.