Kenneth Whyte

For the Scottish poet, see Kenneth White.

Kenneth Whyte (born August 12, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, publisher and author based in Toronto. He was formerly the Senior Vice-President of Public Policy for Rogers Communications[1] and chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation.[2]

Early life and career

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Whyte grew up in Edmonton, Alberta.[3] He began his career in journalism as reporter at the Sherwood Park News and joined Alberta Report as a reporter in 1984, serving as executive editor of the magazine starting in 1986.[4] In 1994, Whyte was appointed editor of Saturday Night, a monthly magazine.[5] In 1998, he was named editor-in-chief of the National Post, a new conservative national newspaper. In 2003, Whyte and several other executives were dismissed from the National Post as part of a restructuring by new ownership.[6] He became a visiting scholar at McGill University where he was co-founder of the McGill Observatory in Media and Public Policy, and a trustee of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.[7]

Rogers

In 2005, Whyte joined Maclean's at the start of its 100th year of publication.[8] Whyte was named the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s newsperson of the year in 2008.[9] Maclean's was noted during his tenure for its controversial, tabloid covers, including an exposé of political corruption in Quebec that was unanimously denounced by Canada's House of Commons,[10] and an excerpt of Mark Steyn's America Alone, which touched off several failed actions against the magazines in provincial and federal human rights commissions.[11]

In 2009, while still editing and publishing Maclean’s, Whyte also took over the publisher's title at Chatelaine magazine, traditionally Canada's largest women's title. During his first year at the magazine, its circulation dropped below its main competitor Canadian Living for the first time in its history.[12] Whyte hired Jane Francisco as editor [13] and the two of them engineered a turnaround over the next four years.[14]

In 2011, Whyte became president of Rogers Publishing Limited, which owned fifty-five magazines, including Chatelaine, Today's Parent, Canadian Business, Moneysense, and Hello! Canada.[15] At the end of 2013, Rogers entered into a partnership with Hearst, Time Inc., Meredith, and Condé Nast to create Next Issue Media (now Texture). Whyte left Rogers to become the founding president of Next Issue Canada and a director of Next Issue globally.[16]

Published Books

In 2008, Whyte's non-fiction book, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst was published in Canada, and the following year in the U.S.[17] It was a finalist for the 2009 National Business Book Award,[18] the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction,[19] the Charles Taylor Prize,[20] and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography.[21] It was also a Washington Post book of the year.[22] His second book, a biography of Herbert Hoover, was published by Random House/Knopf in 2017.[23] It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2017. In 2021, Knopf published The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise, which is an account of the rise and subsequent decline of General Motors and the automotive industry. In this book, Whyte attributes the industry decline to what he believes was an excessively regulated business environment that developed following Ralph Nader's activism for the promotion of automobile safety. [24]

Sutherland House Books

In 2018, Whyte announced he was forming Sutherland House Books, a non-fiction publishing house that began releasing books in 2019.[25] Authors who have published works under Sutherland House Books include author and journalist Jon Kay, psychologist and academic Michael Ungar, author and historian Conrad Black, cultural critic Sam Forster, and the "urban fixer" Joe Berridge. Others include, Jennifer Hosten, Alex Johnston, Trilby Kent, Judith Kalman, Ira Wells, Eric Reguly, Allen Abel among others.

In 2022, Sutherland House announced the launch of Sutherland Quarterly a series of current affairs books by leading writers that are sold in bookstores and also can be purchased by annual subscription.

Other Involvements

In 2016-2017, Whyte was appointed to the Canadian government's expert advisory panel on cultural policy.[26][27] A governor of the Donner Canadian Foundation for more than twenty years, Whyte succeeded Allan Gotlieb as chairman of the foundation in 2016.[28] He is also a director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.[29][30] He has served as a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto,[31] an adviser to the Cundill Prize Foundation,[32] and a governor of the Aurea Foundation.[29] He is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, a life-time honorary alumnus of McGill University, and a former board member of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.[33] In the spring of 2017, Whyte, in response to Hal Niedzviecki's editorial in Write magazine, initiated the "appropriation prize" in support of authors writing from points of view other than their own.[34] The "prize" was controversial in the Indigenous literature community.[35]

References

  1. ^ Baluja, Tamara. "KEN WHYTE NAMED ROGERS SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF PUBLIC POLICY". J Source.
  2. ^ "20th Anniversary Donner Prize Winner Announced". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Adams, James. "Can Ken Whyte save Chatelaine?". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2015-11-25
  4. ^ Journalism, Ryerson Review of (April 2, 2006). "Whyte Noise | [ ] Review of Journalism : The School of Journalism".
  5. ^ "Can Ken Whyte save Chatelaine?". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  6. ^ "CanWest jettisons National Post executives". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  7. ^ "McGill researchers explore media election coverage". Newsroom. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  8. ^ "Maclean's new editor cuts senior employees". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  9. ^ "OpenFile's Wilf Dinnick wins J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year Award". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  10. ^ "On Maclean's, the House panders to Quebec". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  11. ^ "Free speech, eh? Why is Canada prosecuting Mark Steyn? | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  12. ^ Archer, Bert (April 7, 2011). "The Ken Whyte Effect". Toronto Standard. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  13. ^ "Chatelaine names new editor in chief". CBC Canada. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  14. ^ "Chatelaine is the #1 Magazine in Canada". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  15. ^ "Ken Whyte appointed President of Rogers Publishing". About Rogers. June 16, 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  16. ^ "Next Issue Media launches its 'Netflix for magazines' in Canada". Canadian Business. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  17. ^ Rosenthal, Jack (January 9, 2009). "The Mogul at Play (Published 2009)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  18. ^ "Business book award winner foresees shift in power to Alberta | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  19. ^ "Journalism wins award for memoir on son". Vancouver Sun. January 16, 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2020 – via Press Reader.
  20. ^ "The Winner of The Ninth Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction". Archived from the original on April 29, 2010.
  21. ^ "2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners". Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  22. ^ "Holiday Guide 2009: Best Books - The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  23. ^ "Review: Kenneth Whyte's Hoover is a monumental work". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  24. ^ "The Last Battle Over Big Business. Ralph Nader, General Motors, and what we get wrong about regulation". Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  25. ^ "Former Rogers president Ken Whyte launches non-fiction publishing house, acquires small press". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  26. ^ "Expert Advisory Group". aem. Archived from the original on June 29, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  27. ^ Bradshaw, James; Leblanc, Daniel (June 28, 2016). "Canadian experts unite for cultural policy advisory group". Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  28. ^ Malloy, Kate (May 15, 2017). "Nicholson pulls back curtain on how Donner Prize finalists make the cut". The Hill Times. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  29. ^ a b "Ken Whyte". C.D. Howe Institute. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  30. ^ "Kenneth Whyte". Canada Strong & Free Network. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  31. ^ Canada, Service (August 31, 2016). "News". aem. Archived from the original on February 18, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  32. ^ "Advisory Committee". Archived from the original on November 24, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  33. ^ "Briefs: Former National Post editor joins MISC". McGill Reporter. 36 (1). September 11, 2003. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  34. ^ Paradkar, Shree (May 13, 2017). "Cultural appropriation prize fund was the unkindest cut of all: Paradkar". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
  35. ^ "Canadian journalists support 'appropriation prize' after online furore". the Guardian. May 13, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2021.

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