By: E&P Staff Chicago Sun-Times Editor in Chief Michael Cooke is resigning to become editor in chief of the Toronto Star, the Sun-Times said Wednesday.
At the Star, he will be reunited with John Cruickshank, who was publisher of the Sun-Times during its most tumultuous years following the ouster and later arrest on federal fraud charges of Publisher David Radler and his boss Conrad Black.
"I love the Chicago Sun-Times and this city. Both have been extraordinarily kind to me and my family," Cooke said in a statement. "However, the opportunity to edit Canada's biggest newspaper, the Toronto Star, is irresistible. The Toronto Star was my first newspaper job in North America when I left my native England some 30 years ago. And in joining the Star, I will renew a 30-year relationship during which Publisher John Cruickshank has been my friend, colleague, partner and boss."
Cooke first came to the Sun-Times as editor in chief in 2000. He left in 2004 to become editor of New York's Daily News, and returned to Chicago in late 2005 as vice president, editorial, with the task of improving the dozens of community papers Sun-Times Media Group publishes in the Chicago suburbs.
He was named editor in chief of all Sun-Times News Group newspapers, including the flagship tabloid, in September 2006.
Cooke's resignation, which is effective at the end of the month, comes just a day after the new board of directors replaced Sun-Times Media Group Chairman and CEO Cyrus Freidheim Jr. with Jeremy Halbreich, the former Dallas Morning News general manager who is also a director. John Barron, who had been the Sun-Times' general manager, was named publisher, replacing Freidheim.
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