Jonathan Goldsbie Explained
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
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. 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.[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
Goldsbie is noted for his love of theatre.[13]
Notes and References
- "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
- 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 . 10.3138/tric.35.2.203 . en . 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.
- Web site: Performance artist takes over Route 501, trends on Twitter Globalnews.ca . 2022-07-11 . Global News . en-US.
- News: Brown . Desmond . 24 June 2022 . Toronto's newest city councillor resigns hours after appointment over anti-LGBTQ social media posts . CBC .
- Web site: 2022-06-24 . Hours after she was appointed, new Etobicoke city councillor resigns due to homophobic social media posts . 2022-07-11 . thestar.com . en.
- Web site: 2021-05-12 . Announcing the Finalists of the 6th Annual Digital Publishing Awards . 2022-07-11 . Digital Publishing Awards . en-CA.
- Web site: Digital Publishing Awards . 2022-07-11 . Digital Publishing Awards . 10 June 2021 . en-CA.
- Web site: Buckram Grove Press Award 2020 . 2022-07-11 . KWIC internet . en-US.
- Web site: 2021-06-12 . Presenting the Winners of the 2021 National Magazine Awards . 2022-07-11 . National Magazine Awards . en-CA.
- News: Nestruck . J. Kelly . 2022-06-28 . Juliet must not die! A brief history of rewriting Romeo and Juliet . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2022-07-11.
