Saturday May 17, 2008
Biography 
Murray Campbell is the Queen's Park columnist of The Globe and Mail.
He joined The Globe in 1977 after earlier experience at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen and in England. In his career with the Globe he has worked in a wide variety of positions, including city editor and sports editor.
He served as bureau chief in both Los Angeles and Washington in the 1990s. Since then, has worked as a national and foreign desk reporter, both based in Toronto, and as a feature writer. In reporting from five continents, he has covered innumerable elections, four Olympic Games and the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
He was a Southam fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto in 1983-4 and won the Globe's Stanley McDowell award for writing in 1992 for his coverage of (among other things) the L.A. riots and the U.S. presidential election that year.
He has written the Queen's Park column since 2002.
