Robert Fulford began working for The Globe and Mail while still in high school in the late 1940s, as a part-time copy boy, cub reporter and rewrite man, before becoming a full-time reporter in 1950 at age 18. He was on the Globe staff from 1950 to 1953 and 1955 to 1956. Many years later, he wrote a weekly column for the Globe from 1992 to 1999.