Richard J. Doyle

Richard James “Dic” Doyle, OC, newspaper editor, journalist, senator (born 10 March 1923 in Toronto, ON; died 9 April 2003 in Toronto, ON). Richard J. Doyle was editor of the Globe and Mail from 1963 to 1983 (see Newspapers in Canada). He served in the Senate of Canada from 1985 to 1998.

Career

Reared at Chatham, Ontario, Richard J. Doyle worked on the Daily News there following Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) service during the Second World War. He soon joined the Toronto Globe and Mail as a reporter, becoming editor of Globe Magazine (1957) and managing editor of the daily (1959). Editor of the Globe from 1963 to1983, he was Canada's most influential newspaper editor and the one most respected by working journalists (see Journalism). He was renowned for his love of good prose, his feisty independence and his peculiar ability to match apparently unlikely personnel to particular jobs. He continued as a columnist for the paper until 1985, when he was summoned to the Senate (the first journalist to be called to the Senate since George Brown in 1873). He retired from the Senate in 1998.