Above the Fold
A Personal History of the Toronto Star
$57.17
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2023
Summary
A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues most important to Canadians.
“Don’t let them ruin the newspaper…” These were the dying words of Beland Honderich to his son, John. The newspaper was the Toronto Star, founded in 1892 by Joseph E. (Holy Joe) Atkinson and, to this day, one of the world’s leading and most respected socially liberal broadsheets. For the second half of its legendary-and sometime…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780771000201 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0771000200 |
| Author: | John Honderich |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart Inc. |
| Imprint: | Signal |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 237mm x 158mm |
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About The Author
John Honderich
John Honderich was the publisher of the Toronto Star from 1994-2004, as well as President of Torstar Corporation. After receiving his law degree, he entered journalism in 1973 as an office boy and night reporter for the Ottawa Citizen, joining the Star in 1976. He was a member of both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, and the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s lifetime achievement award. The Honderich family, along with the other four Voting Trust families, sold the Star in 2020. John Honderich died in February 2022 at the age of 75.
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