Career
Journalism
- Reporter, The Globe and Mail, 1950-1953 and 1955-1956
- Worked in the 1950s and 1960s on editorial staffs of The Globe and Mail, Canadian Homes and Gardens, Mayfair, and Maclean's. Served on the editorial board of the Canadian Forum.
- Daily columnist for the Toronto Star, 1959-1962 and 1964-1968
- Monthly film columnist (as Marshall Delaney), Saturday Night magazine, 1965-1986
- Host, The Arts This Week, CBC Radio, 1965-1967
- Host, This Is Robert Fulford, CBC Radio, 1967-1972
- Editor of Saturday Night magazine, 1968-1987
- Weekly columnist for the Toronto Star, 1971-1987
- Co-host of the TVOntario interview program Realities, 1982-1989
- Weekly columnist, The Financial Times of Canada, 1988-1992
- Media columnist for Morningside, CBC Radio, 1989-1993
- Weekly columnist, The Globe and Mail, 1992-1999
- Frequent contributor to Queen's Quarterly since the 1990s
- Regular columnist, The National Post, 1999 to 2019
- Articles, book reviews, etc. in over 60 magazines and newspapers, including:
American Review of Canadian Studies, Americas, Applied Arts, artscanada, Azure, Books in Canada, Business Quarterly, Canadian Notes & Queries, Canadian Architect, Canadian Art, Canadian Author and Bookman, Canadian Forum, Canadian Geographic, Canadian House and Garden, Canadian Interiors, Canadian Jewish News, Canadian Literature, Chatelaine, The Chesterton Review, Chicago Tribune Magazine, City and Country Home, Content, Craft Horizons, Destinations, Down Beat, Eugene O'Neill Review, Financial Times of Canada, Gardening Life, Globe & Mail, The Idler, Imperial Oil Review, Insite, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Maclean's, Malahat Review, Marketing, Masthead, Media, Montreal Gazette, National Post, New Federation, The New Republic, New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Ontario Library Review, Ottawa Citizen, Policy Options, Queen's Quarterly, Quill & Quire, Reader's Digest, Report on Business Magazine, Rotunda, Saturday Night, Tamarack Review, Toronto Life, Toronto Star, U.S. News & World Report, Venue, Wall Street Journal, The Walrus.
Books
Teaching
- Chair, arts journalism programme, Banff Centre for the Arts, 1989-1992
- Maclean Hunter Chair in Communications Ethics, School of Journalism, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 1989-1993
Other Experience
- Co-author (with James Knight) of a new English adaptation of the libretto for Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld," Stratford Festival, 1959
- Co-chair, International Design Conference ("Neighbors: Canada, USA & Mexico"), Aspen, Colorado, 1984
- Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Culture, University College, University of Toronto, 1987-88
- Member of a delegation which travelled to the Soviet Union to meet refuseniks (with Wendy Eisen, Irving Abella, John Erb, and John Oostrom, sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress), 1988
- Past member of Ontario Rhodes Scholarship Committee
- Invited lecturer, Walter Gordon Forum in Public Policy, Massey College, University of Toronto, 1997 (see lecture)
- Invited lecturer, John M. Olin Conference: "The Closing of the American Mind Revisited," University of Chicago, 1997 (see lecture)
- Invited lecturer, Centro Siena-Toronto, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy, 1998
- CBC Massey Lecturer, 1999
- Giller Prize jury member, 2001
- Among a group of Canadian journalists invited to visit Israel by the Canada-Israel Committee, 2002 and 2003 (see related columns)
- Member of jury for international architecture competition, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, 2005
Awards
Photo by Ron Bull, 1972, courtesy of Toronto Star Archives
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