Awards & Honours
Robert Fulford is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received five honorary degrees. He has received numerous journalism awards, including 17 National Magazine Awards.
Honorary Degrees
- McMaster University, 1986
- York University, 1987
- University of Western Ontario, 1988
- University of Toronto, 1994
- University of King's College, Halifax, 1996
Awards
- 17 National Magazine Awards since 1977 (14 Gold and 3 Silver -- see list below), including the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement
- Diplôme d'honneur, Canadian Conference of the Arts, 1981
- Tom Fairley Award for book editing, Editors' Association of Canada (for Scorpions for Sale: A Fictional Biography by Larry Zolf), 1989
- Quill Award, Press Club of Windsor, 1989
- Inducted to the Canadian News Hall of Fame, Toronto Press Club, 1990
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Journalism Foundation, 1996
- Kilbourn Award, Toronto Arts Foundation, 1997
Honours, Fellowships, Etc.
- Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, 1984
- Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada fellowship for travel in Japan, 1987
- Halbert Fellowship to visit the Canadian Studies program at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997 (see lecture)
- Honorary fellowship, Ontario College of Art and Design, 1998
- Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
- Life member, Writers Guild of Canada
National Magazine Awards
- Gold Medal for "Quebec Needs Us and We Need Quebec," Saturday Night (category: Comment), 1977
- Gold Medal for "Doyle of the Globe," Saturday Night (category: President's Medal), 1981
- Gold Medal for "The Personal Journalism of P. Worthington, "Saturday Night (category: President's Medal), 1982
- Gold Medal for "The Canada Council at Twenty-Five," Saturday Night (category: Culture), 1982
- Gold Medal for "Growing Up Gould"/"Disorder in the Court," Saturday Night (category: Comment), 1982
- Gold Medal for "Can Pierre Juneau Save the CBC?," Saturday Night (category: Culture), 1983
- Silver Medal for "Firm Management," Saturday Night (category: Business), 1983
- Gold Medal for "The Long Goodbye"/"Easy Money"/"Unfinished...," Saturday Night (category: Comment), 1984
- Gold Medal for "Masse Culture," Saturday Night (category: Culture), 1985
- Gold Medal for "Conservative Measures"/"Displaced Persons...," Saturday Night (category: Comment), 1985
- Silver Medal for "The Hidden Dangers of Ethnic Politics," Financial Times of Canada (category: Comment), 1988
- Gold Medal for "The Trouble With Emily, Canadian Art (category: Arts & Entertainment, 1993
- Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement, 1997
- Silver Medal for "The Young in History's Stream: Generation X and the Survival of Tradition,"
Queen's Quarterly (category: Essays), 1997
- Gold Medal for "Man Bites Man, Bland Loyalty, Mourning Show," Toronto Life (category: Columns), 2002
- Gold Medal for "Dream Merchants: Jews, Photography and André Kertész"; "The Spirit of the South"; "Migration and Modernity: A Leap in Time and Space," Queen's Quarterly (category: Columns), 2005
- Gold Medal for "'Those Imbecilic, Stultifying Games': Notes on the Age of Sports"; "Guilt, Identity and Japaneseness"; "Walter Benjamin, the Flâneur, and the Confetti of History," Queen's Quarterly (category: Columns), 2006
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