Robert Reguly
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Robert Joseph Reguly was a three-time National Newspaper Award-winning journalist.
Robert Reguly was born in Fort William, Ontario
. He was one of Canada's top news reporters in the 1950s and 1960s. He was at the forefront of the mid-20th century news war between the Toronto Telegram
and the Toronto Star
.
Reguly won a National Newspaper Award in 1966 for tracking down and interviewing Gerda Munsinger
, a German woman at the center of a Canadian political scandal.
In 1977, he left the Star to join the staff of the Toronto Sun
, where he specialized in investigative pieces on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1981, he left the Sun and became a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. After his retirement, he became a successful freelance writer, writing mainly for outdoors magazines. In 2001, he was nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for an article in Outdoor Canada magazine. His son, Eric Reguly
, writes for the The Globe and Mail
.
Reguly contracted heart disease in his last years. He died at his Toronto residence on February 24, 2011.
Robert Reguly was born in Fort William, Ontario
Fort William, Ontario
Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Ever since then it has been the largest city in Northwestern...
. He was one of Canada's top news reporters in the 1950s and 1960s. He was at the forefront of the mid-20th century news war between the Toronto Telegram
Toronto Telegram
The Toronto Evening Telegram was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at both the federal and provincial level. The paper competed with the liberal Toronto Star...
and the Toronto Star
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...
.
Reguly won a National Newspaper Award in 1966 for tracking down and interviewing Gerda Munsinger
Gerda Munsinger
Gerda Munsinger was an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy who was the centre of the Munsinger Affair political scandal in Canada....
, a German woman at the center of a Canadian political scandal.
In 1977, he left the Star to join the staff of the Toronto Sun
Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...
, where he specialized in investigative pieces on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1981, he left the Sun and became a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. After his retirement, he became a successful freelance writer, writing mainly for outdoors magazines. In 2001, he was nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for an article in Outdoor Canada magazine. His son, Eric Reguly
Eric Reguly
Eric Reguly is a Canadian newspaper columnist. His articles appear almost daily in Report on Business, the financial section of Toronto-based The Globe and Mail. Reguly is also a writer for Report on Business Magazine, and occasionally contributes to Globe Auto, the automotive section of the...
, writes for the The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
.
Reguly contracted heart disease in his last years. He died at his Toronto residence on February 24, 2011.