TORONTO – CBC News publisher John Cruickshank will be leaving the broadcaster to return to his newspaper roots.
Cruickshank, 55, has been appointed publisher of the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, effective January 1, 2009. He is the 9th publisher in the newspaper’s 116-year history.
He has served as publisher of CBC News since September, 2007, when he was hired with much fanfare to replace the departed former CBC News head Tony Burman, who went to Al-Jazeera.
Cruickshank was responsible for all English language television, radio and online news at CBC. Before joining the CBC, he was publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and chief operating officer of the Sun-Times Media Group, based in Chicago, from 2003 to 2007. Prior to being named publisher of the Sun-Times, he was vice-president, editorial from 2000 to 2003.
The CBC has not yet announced who will replace him on an interim or full-time basis.
