Fraser Kelly

{{Short description|Canadian journalist (c. 1934 – 2022)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2022}} '''Fraser Loyal Kelly''' ({{circa}} 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 University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in political science and economics.<ref name="club">{{Cite web|last=Kelly|first=Fraser|title=Business and the Media: Prime Time and the Bottom Line|url=http://speeches.empireclub.org/60447/data|access-date=July 8, 2020|website=speeches.empireclub.org|language=en}}</ref>

His career as a journalist began with the ''Toronto Telegram'' in 1961 where he worked as a reporter and then columnist and ultimately the newspaper's political editor until the ''Telegram'''s demise in 1971.<ref name=club/> 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 Isabel Bassett. He also wrote a column for the ''Toronto Star'' and contributed to various magazines.<ref name=club/><ref name="bio">{{Cite web|title=CorpWorld {{!}} Our Team {{!}} Fraser Kelly|url=http://www.corpworldgroup.com/fraser.html|access-date=July 8, 2020|website=www.corpworldgroup.com}}</ref>

Kelly left CFTO-TV in 1981 and joined CBLT-TV, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Toronto station, where he co-hosted the nightly local news program ''Newshour'' with Valerie Elia and, later, Hilary Brown.<ref name=cbc>{{Cite web |url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Flistings_and_histories%2Ftelevision%2Fhistories.php%3FhistoryID%3D1%26id%3D129 |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054016/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Flistings_and_histories%2Ftelevision%2Fhistories.php%3FhistoryID%3D1%26id%3D129 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and also hosted a public affairs show, ''Fraser's Edge'', with Susan Ormiston.<ref>http://www.smls.on.ca/mosaic/ks.htm{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

He retired from broadcasting in 1986<ref name=cbc/> to found Fraser Kelly CorpWorld, a firm which consults businesses on communications, media relations and crisis management.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CorpWorld {{!}} Corporate Profile {{!}} President's Message|url=http://www.corpworldgroup.com/president.html|access-date=July 8, 2020|website=www.corpworldgroup.com}}</ref> More recently he has sold the company, now called CorpWord, but remained with it as Senior Associate.<ref name=bio/> Kelly wrote and edited three books on Canadian politics and served as adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Western Ontario.<ref name=club/>

Kelly died on January 19, 2022, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fraser Loyal Kelly |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/fraser-kelly-obituary?pid=201218260 |website=Legacy |access-date=January 25, 2022 |date=January 25, 2022}}</ref>

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