Career in Journalism

After working as a journalist at the Sarnia Observer, London Free Press

London Free Press

The London Free Press is a daily newspaper based in London, Ontario, Canada.The London Free Press began as the Canadian Free Press, founded by William Sutherland in 1847. It first began printing as a weekly newspaper in 1849. In 1852, it was purchased for $500 by Josiah Blackburn, who renamed it...

and Toronto Star

Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...

, Reynolds became editor-in-chief of the Kingston Whig-Standard

Kingston Whig-Standard

The Kingston Whig-Standard is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is published daily, except on Sunday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is owned by Sun Media...

in 1977.

Reynolds became editor-in-chief of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and Saint John Times-Globe in 1992. He moved to the top position at the Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.- History :...

in 1996 and, from 2000 to 2003, was the editor-in-chief at the Vancouver Sun.

He then moved to back Ottawa, Ontario, and is currently a columnist for the Report on Business section of the The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

Newspaper. He is also editorial consultant to a Canadian newspaper chain. In 2007, he and his wife, Donna, bought Diplomat & International Canada, a magazine published out of Ottawa. In September 2009, he became Editor-at-Large of three dailies owned by Brunswick News

Brunswick News

Brunswick News Inc. is a Canadian newspaper publishing company based in Moncton, New Brunswick. It is privately owned by James K. Irving.-Newspapers:...

 Inc, including the Telegraph-Journal.

Politics

Although he had been a supporter of the New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

 in earlier years, he entered politics as the Libertarian Party of Canada

Libertarian Party of Canada

The Libertarian Party of Canada is a political party in Canada that subscribes to the tenets of the libertarian movement across Canada.-History:...

's candidate in the 1982 by-election

By-election

A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

 in the riding

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

 of Leeds–Grenville. He won 13.4% of the vote, which was the highest percentage vote ever garnered by a Libertarian Party of Canada candidate, either then or since. In May 1982, he became the party's leader, but resigned in 1983 in order to continue his career in journalism.

Family

Reynold's spouse, Donna Jacobs, is an Ottawa-based freelance feature writer and columnist.

External links

• Black's New Look Ottawa Citizen 1997 Maclean's
  Maclean's
  Maclean's is a Canadian weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.-History:Founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, a 43-year-old trade magazine publisher who purchased an advertising agency's in-house...
  
  feature concentrates on Reynolds and his career.
• Neil Reynolds' Columns The Globe & Mail