Jonathan Goldsbie
Canadian reporter and podcaster
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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 | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Journalist, Editor |
| Employer | Canadaland |
| Notable work | Cool Mules (podcast) |
| Awards | National 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]