Norman Webster: a half century in the newsrooms of the world

This coming Thursday Massey College in Toronto is hosting a virtual book launch event for a new publication by veteran journalist Norman Webster entitled Newspapering: 50 Years of Reporting from Canada and Around the World.
Speaking with The Record from his home just outside North Hatley, Webster explained that the book is a collection of some of his favourite and most significant pieces of writing from his years spent working as a reporter, editorialist, and foreign correspondent for papers like The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and The Sherbrooke Record.
While Webster traced the origins of his career back to a summer job with The Globe and Mail in 1958, he shared that his early goals lay much closer to home.
“Originally my ambition was to become sports editor at The Sherbrooke Record,” he said, sharing that he was in awe of then-editor Len O’Donnell and his “Sport Shots and Pot Shots” column. “That was the greatest thing I could aspire to.”
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