Jonathan Goldsbie
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Jonathan Goldsbie | |
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| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Editor |
| Employer | Canadaland |
| Notable work | Cool Mules (podcast) |
| Awards | National Magazine Award, 2021 |
Jonathan Goldsbie is a Canadian journalist, and currently the news editor for Canadaland. He has previously worked as a performance artist and as columnist at The National Post, NOW Newspaper and Torontoist.
He won a National Magazine Award in 2021.
Career
[edit]Goldsbie was previously a member of Toronto's Public Space Committee,[1] and has worked as a columnist for The National Post, NOW Newspaper[2][3] and Torontoist.[4] At Now Newspaper, Goldsbie was the chair of Unifor union-led employee bargaining committee.[5]
He is well known for his Twitter account @goldsbie, where he Tweets about Toronto politics.[3] In 2012, Goldsbie organized the performance art piece Route 501 Revisited as part the Free Fall theatre festival, in which he rented a street car and invited anyone to take Toronto's 501 Streetcar Route, in silence, but with Twitter conversation.[3][6]
In 2022, Goldsbie discovered and Tweeted about 2015 to 2021 homophobic social media posts by newly appointed Toronto City Councillor Rosemarie Bryan, resulting in her resignation the same day.[7]
Goldsbie is the news editor of Canadaland[8] and was part of a team that received an honourable mention, after being a finalist at the Digital Publishing Award for their coverage of the WE Charity scandal in 2021.[9][10] He received a Bucham Grove Press award for his Wag The Doug podcast work.[11] In 2021, he was part of the team that won gold at the National Magazine Awards as the producer of Cool Mules podcast about Vice (magazine) editor Slava Pastuk's cocaine smuggling.[12]
Personal life
[edit]Goldsbie is noted for his love of theatre.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Police laud surveillance cameras, critics not so sure." The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 21 May 2009. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A200262518/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=a21242fc. Accessed 10 July 2022.
- ^ Filion, J. (2015). The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford. Canada: Random House Canada. p140, 263, 301, 342
- ^ a b c McLeod, Kimberley (2014-05-16). "Finding the New Radical: Digital Media, Oppositionality, and Political Intervention in Contemporary Canadian Theatre". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada. 35 (2): 203–220. doi:10.3138/tric.35.2.203. ISSN 1913-9101.
- ^ Sayej, Nadja. "The 'est' of them all." Globe & Mail, 20 Dec. 2008, p. M3. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A190875840/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=d3d3f192. Accessed 10 July 2022.
- ^ "Labour strife escalates concern for future of Toronto weekly." Globe & Mail, 11 Aug. 2016, p. B3. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A460449529/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=d0f7bf2d. Accessed 10 July 2022.
- ^ "Performance artist takes over Route 501, trends on Twitter | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ Brown, Desmond (24 June 2022). "Toronto's newest city councillor resigns hours after appointment over anti-LGBTQ social media posts". CBC.
- ^ "Hours after she was appointed, new Etobicoke city councillor resigns due to homophobic social media posts". thestar.com. 2022-06-24. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Announcing the Finalists of the 6th Annual Digital Publishing Awards". Digital Publishing Awards. 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Digital Publishing Awards". Digital Publishing Awards. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Buckram Grove Press Award 2020". KWIC internet. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Presenting the Winners of the 2021 National Magazine Awards". National Magazine Awards. 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ Nestruck, J. Kelly (2022-06-28). "Juliet must not die! A brief history of rewriting Romeo and Juliet". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-07-11.