“Ken’s achievements have made him one of Canada’s most respected journalists, and he has a wealth of insights in business, media, and cultural policy,” remarked Robson.
July 17, 2017 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of Ken Whyte, founding editor of the National Post and former editor-in-chief of Maclean’s, as a Senior Fellow.
“Ken’s achievements have made him one of Canada’s most respected journalists, and he has a wealth of insights in business, media, and cultural policy,” remarked Robson. “The C.D. Howe Institute looks forward to having his advice on its research in these areas.”
During his career in Canadian journalism, Mr. Whyte served as editor-in-chief of Saturday Night magazine, founding editor of the National Post, and editor-in-chief and publisher of Maclean’s.
Beginning in 2011, Mr. Whyte was president of Rogers Publishing Limited, and subsequently the founding president of Next Issue Canada (now Texture). From 2014-2017, he was Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Rogers Communications.
Mr. Whyte has also been a director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and several other private and non-profit boards. He has been a governor of The Aurea Foundation, a Senior Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto, a visiting scholar at McGill University, and a governor of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. He is an Honorary Life-Time Alumnus of McGill. In 2016-17, he served on an expert panel advising Canada’s Minister of Heritage on the future of digital media.
In 2008, Mr. Whyte published The Uncrowned King, a biography of William Randolph Hearst. His second book, a biography of Herbert Hoover, will be published in the U.S. by Knopf in 2017.
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