James Stuart Keate was a Canadian journalist who rose through the ranks to become publisher of the Victoria Times from 1950 to 1964 and the Vancouver Sun from 1964 until his retirement in 1979.
19 Facts About Stu Keate
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Stu Keate served as president of The Canadian Press and the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association.
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Stu Keate was elected to the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1974.
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Stu Keate met and married Letha Meilicke in 1939, and they had two children, Richard and Kathryn.
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Stu Keate first was stationed on the East Coast of Canada, writing articles about Canada's new Tribal class destroyers.
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Stu Keate was then assigned to the Canadian Naval Mission Overseas in London.
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Stu Keate was then posted to St John's, Newfoundland for ten months before being transferred to Canada's first cruiser, HMCS Uganda, which sailed for the South Pacific.
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Stu Keate created the post of publisher in each newsroom, and hired Stu Keate to be the first publisher of the Victoria Daily Times.
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Stu Keate was found guilty on five of seven charges of receiving bribes, making him the first person in the British Commonwealth found guilty of conspiring to accept bribes while serving as a cabinet minister.
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Stu Keate was sentenced to five years in jail and served 28 months.
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In 1955, Stu Keate came up with the idea of creating the world's tallest free-standing totem pole, financed by the sale of 50-cent shares.
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In 1964, Max Bell asked Stu Keate to move to Vancouver to became publisher of another FP Publications newspaper, the Vancouver Sun.
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Stu Keate knew that creating a quality newspaper required money to hire good reporters; this caused disagreements with the general manager of FP Publications, who was more concerned with the bottom line than with improving the quality of the syndicate's newspapers.
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The resultant uproar resulted in a federal parliamentary committee being convened, and Prime Minister Lester B Pearson invited Stu Keate to act as a neutral mediator to resolve the dispute.
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From 1963 to 1969, Stu Keate served on the Canada Council.
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In 1964 and again in 1965, Stu Keate served as president of The Canadian Press.
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Stu Keate served as president of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association during this time.
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Stu Keate was founding chair of the Canadian Coimmittee of the International Press Institute, and was a director of the Freedom of the Press Committee of the Inter-American Press Association.
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Stu Keate died in 1987 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.