Doug Saunders
Douglas "Doug" Richard Alan Saunders (born 1967) is a British-Canadian journalist and author, and columnist for The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. He is the newspaper's international-affairs columnist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent formerly based in London and Los Angeles.His journalism has won the National Newspaper Award, the Canadian counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions: in 1998, 1999, and 2000 for critical writing; and in 2006 and 2013 for column writing. In 2008, he was shortlisted for the award in international reporting, for a series of investigative articles on the state of the middle class around the world. He has also been shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Awards, in Public Issues.He is the author of the book Arrival City (2011), in which he visited 20 locations on five continents to study the effects of the final wave of rural-urban migration on the cities of the world. It was the winner of the $35,000 Donner Prize, honouring the best book on public affairs in Canada, one of the five finalists for the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize honouring the world's best book on international affairs, and for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. In 2015, Arrival City was on the 15-book longlist for the CBC's Canada Reads competition.His 2012 book The Myth of the Muslim Tide documented the immigration, integration and political response to Muslim minorities in Europe and North America, and compared them to earlier populations of Roman Catholic and Jewish immigrants. It has been published in the United States, Canada, Germany (as Mythos Überfremdung) and Denmark. His column, Reckoning, appears on Saturdays in the newspaper's Focus section, and is generally devoted to intellectual and ideological concepts behind the news, from a political perspective that is broadly rooted ideologically in social democracy and economically in liberalism; he also writes frequent weekday columns and posts on international affairs. Since 2013, he has also served as the Globe and Mail's Online Opinion Editor, where he created the Globe Debate Web portal, and launched several channels of online opinion/debate content and an interactive tool for online debates and panel discussions.