Former Montreal Gazette editor-in-chief Norman Webster looks back at 50 years of reporting | Montreal Gazette

In 1959 and 1960, while a student at Bishop’s University, Webster did summer internships at the Globe and Mail — a paper where much later, from 1983 to 1989, he would be editor-in-chief, as he would at the Montreal Gazette from 1989 to 1993. Two subsequent years as the Bishop’s correspondent for the Sherbrooke Daily Record were a further springboard, via a spell as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, to a career whose highlights have now been gathered into a remarkable book.Newspapering: 50 Years of Reporting From Canada and Around the World (Barlow Books, $29.95) does more than serve as a condensed personal view of a momentous half-century. It’s also a master class in short-form reportorial journalism and editorial writing. This kind of material, if not digitized, can all too easily be lost to history, relegated to decomposing microfiche and endangered paper archives. For all those who care about the noble trade he plied, Webster’s book is a boon.

Source: Former Montreal Gazette editor-in-chief Norman Webster looks back at 50 years of reporting | Montreal Gazette