Peter Worthington, Sun News

(1927 - 2013)

The devastating announcement of the Toronto Telegram closing in 1971

left staffers scrambling for jobs.

A small group including Peter Worthington, Don Hunt and Douglas Creighton

began plans to produce a tabloid eventually named the Toronto Sun.

"None of us had ever rented a building, found a press, bought newsprint or started a company.  Hardly any of us had dummied a tabloid paper before.

"It has been argued that every successful enterprise requires three leaders; a dreamer, a businessman and a son of a bitch.  Well, we had all three...I'll leave it to the reader to fit us into the proper category." ~ Douglas Creighton.

The Sun was to be "unintimidated, aggressive, accurate and irreverent."  In his autobiography, Sunburned - Memoirs of a Newspaperman - THE SUN,* Creighton describes the dream, the trying days and weeks of establishing the new tabloid.

*Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited, 1993.