U.S. Newspapers to Canada: We’re Outta Here

Incredibly, reports the Toronto Star: “When The Washington Post closes its Toronto bureau this summer, it will mark the death of the American newspaper correspondent in Canada.” Wire services and freelancers will have to take up the slack. Which prompted a scholar at the Poynter Institute to remark, “Any American editor who finds Canadians boring has his or her head up their ice.” (Via Romenesko.)

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