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Matthew William Fraser | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | July 3, 1958
Occupation | Academic, Author, Journalist |
Genre | Media |
Notable works | Weapons of Mass Distraction, Throwing Sheep In The Boardroom |
Matthew William Fraser (born July 3, 1958) is a British-Canadian academic, author and journalist.
Born in Toronto to British parents, Fraser was educated at the University of Toronto ( Victoria College), Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), Carleton University, London School of Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, where he earned a doctorate in political science.[ citation needed]
He began his journalism career at The Globe and Mail in the 1980s, and subsequently wrote a weekly column for the Montreal Gazette from Paris and London. In the 1990s, he became a policy adviser and consultant in Ottawa, where he worked mainly on broadcasting and media issues for the Liberal government. In 1997, he joined the faculty of Ryerson University as a professor of media.
In 1998 when media magnate Conrad Black launched the National Post, Fraser joined the paper as a columnist while briefly retaining his academic position at Ryerson. In 2002–03, he co-hosted a weekly CBC Newsworld television show, Inside Media, with Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias. From 2003 to 2005, he was Editor-in-Chief of the National Post.
He is a professor at the American University of Paris and taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. [1] He has also lectured at the Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), Panthéon-Assas University, and Université de Paris-Dauphine.