EARLY EDITION: All that glitters is not gold

This summer, take a step back in time each week as we highlight some of the more memorable moments in the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Russell Mills joined the Citizen in 1971 and became editor of the newspaper in 1976 and publisher in 1986. Today, he recounts how a “golden opportunity” to market the newspaper didn’t turn out quite as anticipated.
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Stealing a good idea is sometimes a bad plan.
In 1979, British children’s author Kit Williams cause