Bert Archer is a Canadian author, journalist, travel writer, essayist, critic, and former editor in chief of the Montreal Gazette.
[1] In 1994, he was hired as an editorial assistant by Quill & Quire, Canada's national book trade magazine.
Two years later, as review editor, Archer was pressured to resign after writing an essay in the Financial Post which some considered derogatory to certain elements in the Canadian publishing industry, specifically, the small presses.
Greg Gatenby, founder of Toronto's International Festival of Authors, said of Archer being given space in prominent papers to write about books, "It's like having an eight-year-old at the helm of a 747."
[9] In 2022, he was named editor in chief of the Montreal Gazette,[10] Canada's oldest daily newspaper, a position he held until mid-2023.