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Doug Saunders (born 1967) is a well-known Canadian journalist and author, a columnist and reporter for the Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. He is the newspaper's European Bureau Chief, based in London, England.

His journalism has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada's counterpart to the U.S. Pulitzer Prize, on four occasions. He won the prize a record three consecutive times, in 1998, 1999 and 2000, for critical writing. And in 2006, he won a fourth award, honouring him as the best columnist in Canada. 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 Canada's National Magazine Award, in Politics.

He is the author of the book Arrival City (2010), 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. The book is published in the United States (in 2011), Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Australia and New Zealand, and China.

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 in social democracy and liberalism.

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