Known for his feriocious work ethic and encyclopedic knowledge, Fulford revived the critical fortunes of Saturday Night magazine during his nearly 20-year editorship, as well as hosting TV and radio programs, authoring books and writing columns
Robert Fulford , shown in 1993, spent decades as a journalist and over this time he wrote or co-authored more than a dozen books, contributed to Canada 's leading publications, including The Globe and Mail., and was inducted into the Order of Canada .In 1954, when the black art of industrial psychology was gaining a foothold in Canada ’s more voguish executive suites, Robert Fulford submitted to two days of personality probing – Rorschach, IQ, aesthetic appreciation tests, etc.
A champion of Canadian arts, he nevertheless disdained the alarmist anti-Americanism of his fellow cultural nationalists. And with a mammoth appetite and ferocious work ethic compensating for his lack of formal education and training, Mr. Fulford was an early exemplar of the multiplatform threat, hosting TV or radio programs while juggling full-time editing or reporting jobs, advisory board memberships and other freelance assignments.
But he had greater aspirations. “My hope was eventually to write magazine articles and books, but I was also beginning to realize that when I hear a good story, I have an almost physical need to tell it,” he explained in his 1999 CBC Massey Lectures,. “In a simpleminded twenty-year-old’s way, I began thinking how I could express that urge in my work. I wanted to write long articles that used some of the techniques of literature, and I began studying journalists who had mastered that trick.
In addition to the usual American and European literary sensations and gossip, the young Mr. Fulford sought to cover the fledgling English-Canadian literature scene, though at the time he was an ambivalent cultural nationalist.
“It was as if he had the purer version of the story memorized in his head, and he was cutting through to that essence,” Mr. Brown wrote. “But what amazed me most of all was the way he seemed to understand the story as a physical entity, as a weight of facts and sentences and paragraphs in the form of pages. We had to carve the story out of that block. This act of engineering was going to try to take up actual space in the attention span of readers, so it had to be worthy of the spot.
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