Jonathan Goldsbie

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Jonathan Goldsbie
Occupation(s)Journalist, Editor
Employer Canadaland
Notable work Cool Mules (podcast)
Awards National Magazine Award, 2021

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.

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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]

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