Kenneth Whyte

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Kenneth Whyte (born August 12, 1960 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian newspaper and magazine editor.

He has been publisher and editor-in-chief of Maclean's, Canada's only weekly newsmagazine, since March 2005.

Whyte began his career in journalism as a sports reporter at the Sherwood Park News, where he went on to serve as editor-in-chief of the paper. He joined Alberta Report as a reporter in the mid-1980s and later served as executive editor of the magazine.

In 1994, Whyte was appointed editor of Saturday Night, Canada's leading monthly magazine, featuring such authors as Mordecai Richler, Mark Kingwell, and Alice Munro. In 1998, he was named editor-in-chief of the newly launched national newspaper National Post. The paper grew from less than 100,000 circulation to over 300,000 in three years amid an expensive, hard-fought newspaper war with Toronto's Globe & Mail. In early 2003, after ownership of the Post had changed hands, Whyte left the paper as part of a purge of senior management. Whyte next became a visiting scholar in media and public policy at McGill University. Whyte is a member of the board of governors of the Donner Canadian Foundation, a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, a trustee of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and a co-founder of the McGill Observatory in Media and Public Policy.

Whyte joined "MacLean's" at the start of its 100th year of publication. He is the first person in the 103-year history of "Maclean's" to simultaneously hold the titles of editor and publisher. The magazine was named Canada's magazine of the year in 2006. Its newsstand sales have increased 80% during his tenure^{citation needed} and its finances are believed to have stabilized.^{citation needed}