Fraser Loyal Kelly ( 1934 – January 19, 2022) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and corporate executive.

Biography

Kelly was born and raised in Toronto. He was educated at the

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, graduating with a degree in political science and economics. His career as a journalist began with the ''

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 the federal and the provincial levels. The paper competed wi ...

'' in 1961 where he worked as a reporter and then columnist and ultimately the newspaper's political editor until the ''Telegrams demise in 1971. He then joined CFTO-TV in Toronto as its political editor and host of ''Fraser Kelly Reports'' and a political affairs program "Hour Long" with co-host

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. He also wrote a column for the ''Toronto Star'' and contributed to various magazines. Kelly left CFTO-TV in 1981 and joined CBLT-TV, the

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's Toronto station, where he co-hosted the nightly local news program ''Newshour'' with Valerie Elia and, later, Hilary Brown. and also hosted a public affairs show, ''Fraser's Edge'', with Susan Ormiston. He retired from broadcasting in 1986 to found Fraser Kelly CorpWorld, a firm which consults businesses on communications, media relations and crisis management. More recently he has sold the company, now called CorpWord, but remained with it as Senior Associate. Kelly wrote and edited three books on Canadian politics and served as adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the

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. Kelly died on January 19, 2022, at the age of 87.

References

1930s births 2022 deaths Year of birth missing Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents Canadian people of Scottish descent Canadian television news anchors Canadian television reporters and correspondents Journalists from Toronto {{Canada-journalist-stub