John D. Cruickshank (born c.1953) is a Canadian newspaper

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, broadcasting executive, journalist, and

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. He is the current

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, a position he has held since March 2017. He was formerly the chief operating officer and publisher of the ''

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,'' publisher of the ''

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''; managing editor of ''

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'', and editor-in-chief of the ''

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''.

Life and career

Cruisckshank was born in Toronto and graduated from the

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with a degree in English literature. He began his career as a journalist for ''

The Kingston Whig-Standard ''The Kingston Whig-Standard'' is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is published five days a week, from Tuesday to Saturday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is currently owned by Postmedia. It has ...

'' in

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, followed by a position with the ''

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''. He served as the managing editor of ''

'' and editor-in-chief of the ''

'' before leaving Canada for the United States in 2000 to take the post of vice president of editorial affairs at the ''

''. In that position, he ran the newsroom until 2003, when he succeeded F. David Radler as chief operating officer and publisher of the paper following Radler's ousting due to corruption charges in the Black and Radler scandal. In 2004, he publicly revealed a circulation scam by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' that had been on-going for years under its previous leadership. His revelation, while damaging to the newspaper's relationships with advertisers and the public, earned him a reputation for high integrity. He stepped down from his position at the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' in 2007 to take a position with the

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as the head publisher of English-language content for television, radio, and online media. From 2008 through 2016, Cruickshank served as the publisher of the ''

''. He also served as co-chair of Canadian Press Enterprises and chairman of the

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. In 2017, he succeeded Canadian diplomat Roy Norton as the

. Cruickshank is married to Jennifer Hunter, a writer for the ''Chicago-Sun Times'', and their two children both attended the

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References

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