DANIEL RICHLER

BookTelevision Editor-in-Chief

As Editor-in-Chief of the world's only 24-hour literary TV channel, BookTelevision, Daniel Richler knows all there is to know about the unholy marriage of books and the box. For anyone interested in the perils of modern mass media, the myth of declining literacy and the dumbing-down of TV, Daniel has innumerable comic anecdotes, cautionary tales and illuminating stories to tell.

Prior to BookTelevision, Daniel Richler was the Gemini Award-winning host of CBC Newsworld’s Big Life. He filed subjective reports from the underground, giving iconoclasts and rebels a fair shake long before they hit the mainstream as he explored their divergent lifestyles. Richler also served as Creative Head of Arts Programming at TVOntario, where he conceived, hosted and executive-produced the enduring Gemini Award-nominated literary series Imprint. He began his television career as host, then producer, of CityTV’s The New Music and then became Chief Arts Correspondent for CBC TV’s The Journal.

Aside from working tirelessly to promote the written word, Daniel Richler has also contributed to the print world, with his best-selling novel Kicking Tomorrow. He has written for numerous magazines and has been a pop culture commentator on CBC Radio’s Morningside.

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