Field: Media Inducted: 1999 Country: Canada Born: August 22, 1926
in Montreal, Quebec
Montreal
Gazette sports editor and sports columnist Red Fisher has
been
covering the National Hockey League
since 1954. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985,
the second
year the Elmer Ferguson Award was
awarded.
Fisher began covering the NHL
and Montreal Canadiens for the Montreal
Star in 1954, when he joined the
newspaper as its beat hockey writer
and assistant sports editor. One year
later, he added the duties of daily
columnist.
In 1969, Fisher was named the
Star’s sports editor, but he continued to
cover Canadiens’ hockey. In 1971, he
won the Canadian Newspaper Award
for sportswriting.
When the Star shuttered in 1979,
Red moved to the sports editor’s desk
at the Montreal Gazette, where he continued
to cover beat NHL hockey in addition
to his editorial duties.
In 1991, Red again won the Canadian
National Newspaper Award. At the
time of publication of this book, he is in
his forty-seventh year covering the
NHL.
