James Stuart Keate OC (October 13, 1913 – March 1, 1987) was a Canadian journalist who rose through the ranks to become publisher of the Victoria Times from 1950 to 1964 and the Vancouver Sun from 1964 until his retirement in 1979. He also served as president of The Canadian Press and the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association. He was elected to the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1974.

Keate was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1913, the son of William Lewis Keate, a timber broker on Vancouver Island. After high school, Keate attended University of British Columbia, where he began his journalism career writing for the student newspaper Ubyssey.

After he graduated in 1935, Keate worked as a sportswriter for The Province, and then became a feature writer for the Toronto Star. He met and married Letha Meilicke in 1939, and they had two children, Richard and Kathryn.

During the Second World War, Keate served in the Royal Canadian Navy as a war correspondent. He first was stationed on the East Coast of Canada, writing articles about Canada's new Tribal class destroyers. Keate was then assigned to the Canadian Naval Mission Overseas in London. In 1943, he served as information officer on HMCS Calgary in the North Atlantic. He was then posted to St. John's, Newfoundland for ten months before being transferred to Canada's first cruiser, HMCS Uganda, which sailed for the South Pacific.

Following the war, Keate worked for Time and Life, first in New York, and then as bureau chief in Montreal. On one assignment, he tried to track down Louis St. Laurent, then the Prime Minister of Canada, for an interview. When no one answered his knock at St. Laurent's home in Quebec City, he let himself in and left a note for St. Laurent on the front hall table.

In 1950, Canadian newspaper magnate Max Bell, through his company FP Publications, bought control of both the Victoria Colonist and the Victoria Times. Although Bell merged many of the business and production functions, he left the two newsrooms separate. He created the post of publisher in each newsroom, and hired Stu Keate to be the first publisher of the Victoria Daily Times.

In 1955, a storm erupted in the BC Legislature when Gordon Gibson, a member of the Liberal opposition, accused Robert Sommers, Social Credit Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, of improperly awarding a forest management contract to E. P. Taylor's British Columbia Forest Products (BCFP). Keate and the Victoria Daily Times added fuel to the scandal with many articles exposing the close relationship between Sommers and BCFP, including the acceptance of gifts and services. As the scandal continued to grow, Sommers rose in the Legislature on February 27, 1956, and delivered a blistering attack on Keate, calling the continual stream of stories, "the most dirty and slanted coverage in the history of B.C., principally by Mr. Stuart Keate, the publisher of the Victoria Times." Sommers stated that the attacks on himself and his ministry by Stu Keate had occupied too much of the legislature's time, and in consequence, offered his resignation as cabinet minister to Premier W.A.C. Bennett. In their book about the scandal, Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald related that "Urbane Victoria Times publisher Stu Keate was unrepentant, taking the resignation as a compliment to him and his paper."

Eight months after resigning from cabinet, Sommers was arrested and charged with bribery. He was found guilty on five of seven charges of receiving bribes, making him the first person in the British Commonwealth found guilty of conspiring to accept bribes while serving as a cabinet minister. He was sentenced to five years in jail and served 28 months.