Lou Clancy to head Postmedia editorial ops

The veteran newsman Lou Clancy has been appointed to run the editorial operations of Postmedia Network Canada. Clancy, 64, has a broadly based journalism career which includes senior positions at the Toronto Star and later Osprey Media, the chain of daily and weekly newspapers assembled by Michael Sifton. Osprey was sold to Quebecor in 2007. Both men served with the Sun Media at that time. Clancy is known as a perceptive but soft-key person in public. Postmedia Network Canada has given Clancy oversight of its editorial operations and the news service that provides coverage to the National Post, Canada.com and the company's other newspapers and websites. Picture is from a group shot taken in 1996 when Clancy was managing editor of the Star.