Sunday, 13 March 2011

VanSickle out

Rick VanSickle
Two TSF sources say Rick VanSickle, a veteran Sun Media staffer, is out as city editor of the St. Catharines Standard.

VanSickle, whose 30-year newspaper career includes stops at the Suns in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary, is also a widely-read wine columnist. 

One tipster says Standard newsroom staffers were told of VanSickle's exit on Thursday when called to a meeting with editor Andrea Kriluck and publisher Judy Bullis.

"No explanation, other than he was gone, was given to the staff," says the tipster. "No word on a whether a replacement will be hired."

Sun Media newspapers in the Niagara area, including the Standard, Niagara Falls Review and Welland Tribune, have been losing bodies steadily for a couple of years.

3 comments:

  1. The many joys of media convergence, where insanity becomes the norm not the exception.

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  2. This has nothing to do with convergence. He'll be replaced.

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  3. This is wonderful news for that newsroom.

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