Montreal – Having led the print and digital transformation of Policy Options since 2012, editor Bruce Wallace is leaving the magazine to return to US-based journalism in January 2015. During his term as editor, Bruce successfully renewed the print magazine, expanding the array of voices in its pages and showing how photography and other visual tools can help convey public policy issues. Together with a strong team of colleagues, he developed a new Web platform that has positioned Policy Options as a leading forum for Canadian policy debates in the digital media age.
“We are sorry to see Bruce leave but understand his desire to return to the enterprise journalism upon which he built his career. We thank him for his tremendous contribution and wish him every success,” said Graham Fox, president of the IRPP. “Together, we achieved our goal of revitalizing and refreshing the magazine in print and online. Bruce leaves a much-improved Policy Options ready to be a player in the digital arena, where so much of our policy debate now occurs,” he continued.
“I am grateful to Graham and everyone at the IRPP for the opportunity and freedom they gave me to reimagine the magazine,” Wallace said. “We broadened the policy discussion to look at new topics, especially those raised by rapid technological change, and we have made Policy Options into a print and online magazine driven by ideas rather than events. I’m proud of what we accomplished, and I leave knowing that the magazine is well positioned to meet the challenges ahead.”
An announcement regarding the new editor will be made tomorrow.
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