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It is widely known in Montreal media circles that management of the Tribune was deeply unhappy that Delaney had sold his Burma report to another publication.
Tribune Editor-in-Chief Edward Harden said he had no comment to make on Delaney’s departure from the newspaper, other than to thank him for his services. Harden refused to comment on speculation that the Asia Weekly article had sparked calls for Delaney’s resignation.
A spokesman for the Canadian Newspaper Guild union said that as a contract columnist with the Tribune, Delaney had the right to sell material to other publications but would “normally” be expected to offer the newspaper right of first refusal for a breaking news story.
Delaney, a well-known sailing buff, said that in the immediate term he would go with a companion on an extended cruising holiday aboard his beloved 30-foot sailboat, which he recently re-christened Daylight Woman.
MICHAEL E. ROSE is a Canadian journalist and broadcaster whose reporting and travel have taken him to Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, southeast Asia and Australia. He has worked for major media organizations around the world, including the CBC, Maclean’s, UPI, Radio France International, the Sydney Morning Herald and Reuters. From 2003-2006, he was Chief of Communications and Publications for Interpol, based at the agency’s headquarters in Lyon, France.