A decade after he gave Canadian journalism a kick in the backside as the founding editor of Conrad Black's brash National Post newspaper, Kenneth Whyte came to campus. Most recently, as editor of Maclean's magazine, he had been reviving the tired newsweekly and would soon be named president of Rogers Publishing. During more than two decades in the journalism business in Canada, Whyte was called many things, but boring wasn't one of them. He is a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, a governor of the Donner Canada Foundation, and a director of the Peter Munk Public Policy Foundation. He is also the author of a biography of William Randolph Hearst, a man who also understood that there's no point to this enterprise if nobody's reading.