Toronto business editor leaving for corporate job

Derek DeCloet, the business editor of The Globe and Mail in Toronto, has accepted a position at magazine publisher Rogers Publishing.

An internal note distributed at the paper states:

Derek will be director of content strategy for Rogers Publishing, leading the editorial operations of their consumer magazines, including Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Chatelaine, MoneySense and Sportsnet Magazine. It’s an enormous opportunity and exciting challenge as Derek will lead a group of 300 journalists and be charged with setting a new digital direction for them and their magazines.

Rogers’ gain is very much the Globe’s loss. Since joining us in 2003, Derek has established himself as one of the country’s most respected business journalists and one of the Globe’s most beloved editors. He started as a reporter in the ROB and became our Vox columnist that year. After six years of business writing, he was appointed managing editor of the section in 2009 and ROB Editor in 2012. Like many in the newsroom, I have come to rely on Derek’s wise counsel, calm confidence, sharp journalistic insight and, most of all, unwavering human decency. He will be missed here by many, none more than me.

Derek’s last day will be this Friday. We will have a proper send-off later in March, after those who are away for spring break have returned.

We are also launching a formal search for the next ROB Editor, looking at both internal and external candidates for one of the most important editorial jobs at the Globe. In the interim, deputy editor Mark Heinzl will oversee the operations, and report directly to me.

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