anne bacani

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i’ve spent the past 25 years at the toronto sun, joining the newsroom in 2000 fresh out of ryerson polytechnic university — now toronto metropolitan university — where i studied print journalism. my first job was copy runner, which is shorthand for fetching coffee and learning fast. from there, i moved through a grab bag of roles: obituary and horse-racing typist, substitute editor of the now-defunct tv book supplement, and eventually print layout editor, working across departments including lifestyle, travel, and entertainment.

long before that, i was a kid who wanted to be an author. i wrote cringe-worthy poetry that only my family ever saw and entered short-story contests. my parents, being practical, nudged me toward a career that offered both creativity and a paycheque, which led me to ryerson's print journalism program in 1996.

today, i produce your midday sun, a daily email newsletter that rounds up the latest headlines from our newsroom and delivers them to readers in an entertaining, easy-to-digest format — a modern extension of a career that began in print and continues to evolve.