David Ablett

Who is David Ablett?

David Ablett was a Canadian journalist and editor for the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, and other media. He was born in Gibson's Landing, British Columbia, Canada.

Ablett attended the University of British Columbia for his undergraduate studies. At the University of British Columbia he started his journalism career as the editorial page editor of the student newspaper, the Ubyssey. After university, he worked as a journalist at the Vancouver Sun.

In 1965, the Vancouver Sun sent him to Columbia University School of Journalism, where he graduated in 1967 and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Traveling Fellowship.

The prize allowed him to spend the next two years abroad - first in Japan, where he worked as a journalist for the Asahi Shimbun, then Europe, where he covered the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia for Radio Free Europe.

He returned to the Vancouver Sun in 1969 and became the Washington, and then Ottawa Bureau Chief. He then became the Vancouver Sun's editorial page editor.

In 1977, while at the Vancouver Sun, Ablett won Canada's National Newspaper Award for editorial writing.

Later, he joined the Privy Council for Canada under Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.