Daniel Richler

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Daniel Richler, (born 1957) the stepson of Canadian author Mordecai Richler, is a Canadian author, and an arts and pop culture broadcaster and writer. Born in London, England, his family moved back to his father's hometown of Montreal when Daniel was 15. He became a punk rocker as a teenager and was lead singer of the Alpha Jerks.

In the early 1980s, Richler entered broadcasting with radio station CJCL in Toronto. He moved to CITY-TV in 1985 and became co-host of The New Music. Richler joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1987 where he was a cultural commentator on CBC Radio's Morningside and as an arts reporter on The Journal. He subsequently moved to TVOntario where he became Creative Heads of Arts Programming and launched the long-running literary program Imprint. He later returned to CBC in the late 1990s as the host of Big Life on CBC Newsworld. In 2001 he moved back to ChumCity as "editor-in-chief" (executive producer) of its new literary specialty channel Book Television on which he hosts the literary program Richler, Ink.