Neil Reynolds, an editor who never ran with the pack, dies at 72 | Canada | News | National Post - Tom Spears, Postmedia News:
May 19, 2013 - "Neil Reynolds made a career out of steering Canadian newspapers along uncharted courses, looking for stories with scant regard for the safe or predictable..... Reynolds died of cancer in Ottawa on Sunday at the age of 72.
"Born in Kingston, Ont., Reynolds was a high-school dropout who became city editor and assistant managing editor at the Toronto Star — but left Canada’s biggest newsroom in 1977 for a much smaller daily. He became editor-in-chief of the Kingston Whig-Standard. He stayed there 17 years....
"Reynolds was editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen from 1996 to 2000, chosen by Conrad Black.... Russell Mills was the publisher then, and recalls Reynolds taking the job eagerly....
"Reynolds was a libertarian who believed in small government and hard work, and was national leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada for a time. Some readers accused him of every sin from promoting slavery to denying women the vote, but Mills says this was just what made him a good columnist. 'Neil had a real point of view … You might not always agree with him, but you usually came away from his columns more informed about an issue and thinking more deeply about it than you would otherwise.'"
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May 19, 2013 - "Neil Reynolds made a career out of steering Canadian newspapers along uncharted courses, looking for stories with scant regard for the safe or predictable..... Reynolds died of cancer in Ottawa on Sunday at the age of 72.
"Born in Kingston, Ont., Reynolds was a high-school dropout who became city editor and assistant managing editor at the Toronto Star — but left Canada’s biggest newsroom in 1977 for a much smaller daily. He became editor-in-chief of the Kingston Whig-Standard. He stayed there 17 years....
"Reynolds was editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen from 1996 to 2000, chosen by Conrad Black.... Russell Mills was the publisher then, and recalls Reynolds taking the job eagerly....
"Reynolds was a libertarian who believed in small government and hard work, and was national leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada for a time. Some readers accused him of every sin from promoting slavery to denying women the vote, but Mills says this was just what made him a good columnist. 'Neil had a real point of view … You might not always agree with him, but you usually came away from his columns more informed about an issue and thinking more deeply about it than you would otherwise.'"
Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/19/neil-reynolds-an-editor-who-never-ran-with-the-pack-dies-at-72/
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