Robert Remington

Associate faculty

Communication & Culture

Robert Remington is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author with a professional career spanning four decades in Canadian journalism. His varied career includes roles as a beat reporter, columnist, critic, correspondent, editor, documentary TV host, radio host and television commentator. He was nominated for a National Newspaper Award and is a recipient of a Michener Award citation for public service journalism. His co-authored book about Canada’s youngest multiple killer, Runaway Devil, was seven weeks on the Globe and Mail’s bestseller list.

Experience

Remington is a former columnist and editorial writer with the Calgary Herald. He was also a news correspondent for the National Post and a columnist, arts editor, sports editor and reporter at the Edmonton Journal. He has written for the Globe and Mail and reported from Europe for PostMedia News Services. His journalism career has taken him to Pakistan, East Africa, Europe, the Middle East, India, Central Asia and Central America.

He is the recipient of the Michener Citation for public service journalism (2012), nominee for a National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting (2012) and a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian crime writing (2010). 

Education

1973
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

University of Minnesota