John Edward Macfarlane (born March 28, 1942) was the editor of the Canadian magazine The Walrus from 2008 to 2014.
He studied at the University of Calgary, where in his second year he became editor of The Gauntlet.
[1] In 1965, he started as an editorial writer at The Globe and Mail becoming an entertainment editor in 1967.
From 1972 to 1974, he was the editor of Toronto Life, leaving in 1974 as president of Analytical Communications Incorporated, a public relations company.
Briefly, from 1991 to 1992, he was the managing director of news, features and information programming at CTV.