Current activities:

• Weekly columnist, The National Post
• Contributing editor, media columnist, Toronto Life
• Contributing editor, Canadian Art
• Frequent contributor to CBC radio & TV
• Senior fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto

Professional history:

• Editor, 1968-1987, of Saturday Night magazine
• Co-host, Realities, interview program, TVOntario, 1982-89
• Maclean Hunter Chair in Communications Ethics, School of Journalism, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 1989-1993
• Chair, arts journalism programme, Banff Centre for the Arts, 1989-1992
• Media columnist for Morningside, CBC Radio, 1989-93
• Weekly columnist, The Financial Times of Canada, 1988-92
• Weekly columnist, The Globe and Mail, 1992-99
• Daily columnist for the Toronto Star, 1959-62 and 1964-68. Weekly columnist for the Star, 1971-87
• Worked in the 1950s and 1960s on editorial staffs of The Globe and Mail, Canadian Homes and Gardens, Mayfair, Maclean's. Served on the editorial board of the Canadian Forum.
• Awarded Prix d'honneur of the Canadian Conference of the Arts, 1981. Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, 1984. Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Journalism Foundation, 1996
• Honorary degrees from McMaster University, York University, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, University of King's College, Halifax. Honorary fellowship, Ontario College of Art and Design.
• Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Culture, University College, University of Toronto, 1987-88
• Co-chair, International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado, 1984
• Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada fellowship for travel in Japan, 1987
• Visitor, Canadian Studies program, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1997
• Winner of the President's Medal for the best magazine article in Canada in 1981
and in 1982. Winner of twelve other National Magazine Awards. Winner of Editors' Association of Canada Tom Fairley Award for book editing, 1989.

Books:

Author:

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (1999)

Editor:

• Harold Town Drawings (1968)

Co-author:

• The Beginning of Vision: Lawren Harris Drawings (1982)
• Canada: A Celebration (1983)

Contributions to recent books:

• Foreword to Censorship and the Arts (Ontario Association of Art Galleries, 1995)
• A chapter in Works, a study of the architecture of A. J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company (Nova Scotia Technical University Press, 1996)

Author of Articles and Reviews during the 1990s in:

Amiricas, Canadian Notes & Queries, Canadian Architect, Canadian Art, Canadian Interiors, The Chesterton Review, Chicago Tribune Magazine, City and Country Home, Destinations, Eugene O'Neill Review, The Idler, Imperial Oil Review, Insite, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Marketing, Media, Montreal Gazette, New York Times Book Review, Ottawa Citizen, Queen's Quarterly, Rotunda, Saturday Night, Toronto Life, Venue, Wall Street Journal.

Born in Ottawa, February 13, 1932. Married, four children.

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