Jonathan Goldsbie

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.

Jonathan Goldsbie
Occupation(s)Journalist, Editor
EmployerCanadaland
Notable workCool Mules (podcast)
AwardsNational Magazine Award, 2021

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.[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

Goldsbie is noted for his love of theatre.[13]

References
  1. "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.
  2. Filion, J. (2015). The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford. Canada: Random House Canada. p140, 263, 301, 342
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "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.
  6. "Performance artist takes over Route 501, trends on Twitter | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  7. Brown, Desmond (24 June 2022). "Toronto's newest city councillor resigns hours after appointment over anti-LGBTQ social media posts". CBC.
  8. "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.
  9. "Announcing the Finalists of the 6th Annual Digital Publishing Awards". Digital Publishing Awards. 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  10. "Digital Publishing Awards". Digital Publishing Awards. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  11. "Buckram Grove Press Award 2020". KWIC internet. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  12. "Presenting the Winners of the 2021 National Magazine Awards". National Magazine Awards. 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  13. 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.
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