Matthew William Fraser (born July 3, 1958) is a British-Canadian academic, author and journalist.
[citation needed] He began his journalism career at The Globe and Mail in the 1980s, and subsequently wrote a weekly column for the Montreal Gazette from Paris and London.
In the 1990s, he became a policy adviser and consultant in Ottawa, where he worked mainly on broadcasting and media issues for the Liberal government.
In 1998 when media magnate Conrad Black launched the National Post, Fraser joined the paper as a columnist while briefly retaining his academic position at Ryerson.
In 2002–03, he co-hosted a weekly CBC Newsworld television show, Inside Media, with Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias.