Fred Langan writes for the Globe and Mail about Neville Nankivell, the former editor and publisher of the Financial Post, who died recently.
Langan writes, “Mr. Nankivell spent 40 years at the Financial Post, rising to editor-in-chief and eventually publisher. He worked closely with Mr. Robertson, who was executive editor of the paper. The two men hired people who didn’t necessarily have a journalism degree but who were well-educated and could learn the craft of journalism on the job.
“One of those people was Barry Critchley, who had an economics degree but no journalism experience.
“‘Neville hired me in July of 1980,’ said Mr. Critchley, who stayed with the paper in its various iterations until 2018. He said Mr. Nankivell’s newsroom was a great place to work.
“‘Neville ran a collegial ship. The paper came out on a Tuesday and the highlight of the week was getting a note of praise for your work from Neville,’ said Mr. Critchley, who for many years wrote a Bay Street insider column.”
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