Newman, Peter Charles

NEWMAN, Peter Charles, writer (b 10 May 1929, Vienna, Austria). One of the legendary figures of Canadian magazine journalism, he was editor of Maclean's from 1971 to 1982 and supervised its transition from a monthly to a weekly publication. By this time he had already made a reputation in groundbreaking political journalism as a reporter in Ottawa and author of Renegade in Power (1963), a chronicle of the career of former prime minister John Diefenbaker. Newman has also indulged a fascination...

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