{"id":13630,"date":"2017-03-14T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=13630"},"modified":"2017-03-14T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:21:36","slug":"former-sun-times-publisher-john-cruickshank-named-canadian-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/03\/14\/former-sun-times-publisher-john-cruickshank-named-canadian-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sun-Times publisher named Canadian diplomat here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> John Cruickshank<\/p><\/div>\n

John Cruickshank, the Canadian journalist and media executive who earned respect and trust during seven years as an editor and publisher of the Sun-Times,<\/a> is returning to Chicago as a diplomat for his country.<\/p>\n

Cruickshank, 63, has been named consul general of Canada in Chicago. The Midwest consulate<\/a> covers Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Northwest Indiana and the Kansas City metropolitan area.\u00a0He will assume the post in mid-April.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Cruickshank personally exemplifies the many links between Canada and the United States, which includes his time in Chicago and his tenure as publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times,\u201d Chrystia Freeland, foreign affairs minister of Canada, said in a statement Monday. \u201cWith his proven leadership, I have no doubt that he will successfully represent the best of Canada in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Toronto native, who stepped down last March after seven years as publisher of the Toronto Star, most recently has served as chairman of the Canadian Journalism Foundation and co-chair of Canadian Press Enterprises. He previously held senior editorial roles at CBC News, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette and the Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n

Starting in 2000, Cruickshank was highly regarded as a stabilizing figure during the tumultuous reign of Conrad Black and David Radler, top executives of Sun-Times parent company Hollinger International. Both Black and Radler eventually served prison time for fraud.<\/p>\n

\"John was the cheerful peacemaker, the steady hand, who came in after the dismissals of Black and Radler and told us the good news was, the Sun-Times had been making more money than we thought, and the bad news was, it had been stolen,\" the late Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert said of Cruickshank when he stepped down<\/a> as publisher in 2007. \"He was a calming, encouraging influence.\"<\/p>\n

Of his tenure at the Sun-Times, where he rose from vice president of editorial to chief operating officer and publisher, Cruickshank later joked <\/a>he \u201cwas the only one who wasn\u2019t under FBI investigation at the time that they needed a new publisher.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Cruickshank, the Canadian journalist and media executive who earned respect and trust during seven years as an editor and publisher of the Sun-Times, is returning to Chicago as a diplomat for his country. Cruickshank, 63, has been named consul general of Canada in Chicago. The Midwest consulate covers Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Northwest Indiana and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13636,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}