{"id":20346,"date":"2013-05-20T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20346"},"modified":"2013-05-20T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:25:24","slug":"neil-reynolds-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/neil-reynolds-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Reynolds, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he was much better known for his career in journalism, I first got to know Neil Reynolds when he joined the Libertarian Party of Canada to contest the 1982 by-election in Leeds-Grenville. Here is his obituary from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhig.com\/2013\/05\/19\/former-whig-editor-neil-reynolds-was-the-great-editor-of-his-time\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kingston Whig-Standard<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neil Reynolds is being remembered Sunday night as one of the top editors in Canadian newspaper history, and for being the person responsible for turning the Whig-Standard into a great small-city daily that won national awards and international recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds died on Sunday in Ottawa. He was 72.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the great editor of Canada from the mid-&#8217;70s to the early-2000s because of his ability to improve papers,\u201d said Harvey Schachter, who became editor of the Whig after Reynolds\u2019 departure in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds had been city editor of the Toronto Star in 1974 when he suddenly left to return to Kingston and take on an editing job with the Whig-Standard. By 1978 he was planning to move on when publisher and Whig owner Michael Davies offered him the top newsroom job.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds promptly hired Schachter, Michael Cobden and Norris McDonald to fill out the editors\u2019 ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Whig was really the start,\u201d said Schachter. \u201cWhy the Whig stood out is he took it from a pretty mundane paper to being the top small-town paper in North America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reynolds&#8217; political career didn&#8217;t last long, as he joined the LPC in 1982, held the party leadership for a year, then returned to full-time journalism. His <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Reynolds\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a> page says that his 13.4% of the vote in that by-election was the highest percentage of the vote achieved by an LPC candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he was much better known for his career in journalism, I first got to know Neil Reynolds when he joined the Libertarian Party of Canada to contest the 1982 by-election in Leeds-Grenville. Here is his obituary from the Kingston Whig-Standard: Neil Reynolds is being remembered Sunday night as one of the top editors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,28],"tags":[550,213,293,87],"class_list":["post-20346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-media","tag-libertarianism","tag-newspapers","tag-obituary","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20347,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions\/20347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}