Former Globe and Mail editor Ed Greenspon joins Toronto Star

Edward Greenspon, a former editor-in-chief at the Globe and Mail, has been appointed vice-president, business development at the Toronto Star and the Star Media Group, The Star announced.
"Greenspon, considered one of Canada’s leading media executives, will be responsible in this newly created position for developing new initiatives across the many businesses within Star Media Group, with a goal of helping ensure quality journalism will continue to thrive into the future," The Star said in a story in the newspaper.
Greenspon began his journalism career at the Lloydminster (Saskatchewan) Times, later working at the Regina Leader-Post and the Financial Post before joining the Globe and Mail in 1986 as a business reporter specializing in media industries.
He held various positions at the Globe and Mail over the years, among them European correspondent, managing editor of Report on Business, executive news editor and Ottawa bureau chief. He is the co-author of two books on Canadian politics and has been a regular panellist at conferences and on television, radio and the Internet.