Fife was also Ottawa bureau chief for CanWest News Service, the National Post, and the Sun Media chain. He was the Ottawa bureau chief for CTV News from February 2005. At CTV, he was the host of its Question Period show, a political panel discussion; after Fife's move to The Globe and Mail was announced, it was also stated that the show would be rebranded CTV’s Question Period with The Globe and Mail’s Robert Fife.
Fife worked as a senior political correspondent for The Canadian Press from 1984 to 1987. He spent a decade as the Ottawa bureau chief for Sun Media where he also wrote a regular column.[7] In 1998, Fife joined the National Post as its Ottawa bureau Chief. In 2002, he became the bureau chief for both the National Post and CanWest News Services.
On May 14, 2013, he broke the news that Nigel Wright, then Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper had written a $90,000 cheque to cover the questionable Senate expensesofMike Duffy.[6][9] On 2019, He also was part of a team of three (together with Steven Chase and Sean Fine), who first broke the story of the SNC-Lavalin Affair[4] On September 2023, Fife and Chase planned to publish a report that Canadian security agencies believed the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar was linked to agents associated with the Indian government.[10] This prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the allegations public through the House of Commons.[5]
On November 19, 2015, it was announced that starting 1 January 2016, Fife was moving on from his role as Ottawa bureau chief for CTV News to serve the same role for The Globe and Mail.[7] Fife is currently the host of CTV's political panel show Question Period, which will be renamed CTV’s Question Period with The Globe and Mail's Robert Fife in 2016. In June 2016, Evan Soloman was named as the new host of the show.[7]
In 2018, Fife claimed on CPAC panel that systematic racism was a trivial issue in Canada because social integration of "high schools and universities kids of different backgrounds.”[12][13][14]
