Canada’s National Observer’s masthead changes today as Karyn Pugliese becomes editor-in-chief and Linda Solomon Wood becomes publisher.
As editor-in-chief, Pugliese will further CNO’s mission of reporting on our changing climate in Canada and around the world. She will develop CNO’s reporting and podcasting teams and lead CNO’s daily publication and newsletters to further excellence and reach. As publisher, Solomon Wood will continue to lead business strategy and organizational growth.
Pugliese has spent her career defining excellence and vision in Canadian journalism. She began her career as a parliamentary reporter with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, and eventually returned to APTN as executive director of news and current affairs before becoming managing editor of investigations at CBC. During this time, Pugliese also served as president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. In 2020, she was selected for the prestigious Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, and in 2021, she joined Canada’s National Observer as a columnist and executive editor.
Pugliese’s list of awards and accomplishments is stacked. She’s won the Gordon Sinclair Award for distinguished achievement in journalism, the Hyman Solomon Award for public policy journalism, the Elias Boudinot Free Press Award from the Native American Journalists Association, and the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Charles Bury Award for her leadership supporting journalists and fighting for media rights. In her time with CNO, she has already won a National Newspaper Award for her columns.
Solomon Wood is a key leader in Canadian media who started her career as an investigative reporter. As editor-in-chief, she guided the reporting at CNO’s parent company, Observer Media Group, for 15 years as it garnered top honours and awards in Canadian journalism.