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.
Tony Blair stripped of Blairism
All that’s left is a barren philosophy that suits him alone
Boom, bust and the end of certainty
The West's living standards survived intact, but the East's improved dramatically
Was the boom worth it?
Broken Europe: In countries that kept a lid on consumer and mortgage lending, the good times were worth the hype. Everywhere else, it was like a bad dream
Nini and the European Dream
In Spain, almost everyone is ‘not in education or employment.’ It’s the end of the job for life
Soccer shatters ethnic myths
Suddenly, there was no legitimate link between national identity and ethnic identity
The hollow shell that is NATO
Afghanistan is the last, tragic time this giant alliance will play a major military role in the world
State capitalists are having their day
The Moscow-Beijing model will be dominant for another decade at least
No 'culture of poverty' here
Favela residents aren’t resigned – they are making plans to escape
Force, fear keep Iran together
A year after Ahmadinejad’s ‘victory,’ the resistance dares not speak, but fissures exist
Europe’s culture wars go Dutch
Wednesday’s election is a reflection of the tensions that follow immigration
