Robyn Doolittle (born 13 September 1984) is a Canadian investigative reporter for The Globe and Mail. At the Toronto Star, she gained notoriety for coverage of Toronto mayor Rob Ford's political and personal life, which led to her authoring the biography Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story (2014). At The Globe, her focus has been on sexual assault cases deemed "unfounded" by police in Canada. Early life and education Doolittle was born in 1984 in Sarnia, Ontario, and grew up in Forest, Ontario, where her mother worked in human resources and her father worked for Eaton's building window displays. As a high school student, Doolittle was actively involved in numerous extracurricular activities and wrote a column for the Sarnia Observer. Though she originally intended to study theatre, Doolittle has traced her desire to work in journalism from an experience at her high school prom where she felt that the police unfairly profiled her First Nations boyfriend. Doolittle was accepted into Ryerson University's journalism program in 2002, and from 2006 to 2007 she served as editor-in-chief of The Eyeopener, one of Ryerson's two weekly student newspapers. While editor-in-chief, she clashed with a professor who cut the newspaper's staff and ran a headline attacking the professor. Journalism career 2010–2014: Toronto Star and coverage of Rob Ford While a university student, Doolittle was hired as a summer intern at the Toronto Star. After helping to cover the trial of Conrad Black in Chicago, Doolittle was hired back as a full-year intern and then a staff reporter. Doolittle originally covered crime for the paper, but in 2010 was assigned to cover Toronto City Council. In 2013, Doolittle wrote a story with fellow reporter Kevin Donovan alleging that Rob Ford had been asked to leave the Garrison Ball, a military gala, because he was heavily intoxicated. Ford strongly denied this allegation. In part because of her role in writing the Garrison Ball story, she was approached by Mohamed Farah and Mohamed Siad, alleged members of the Dixon Bloods, about a video they had showing Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. Doolittle was shown the video by Siad on a cell phone, but he refused to give it to the Star unless he was paid $100,000. After Siad also tried to sell the video to John Cook from Gawker, Gawker released a story about the video thus essentially forcing the Star to run their story shortly after.