William G. Stothers has been a journalist for nearly 40 years, working for newspapers in Canada and the United States. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in journalism and later obtained a master's degree in Chinese History from the University of California at Berkeley. He practiced newspapering at The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star in Canada during the 1960s and '70s.
Most recently, he spent 14 years at The San Diego Union in a number of capacities, including Assistant City Editor, Executive Financial Editor and Ombudsman.
In February 1992, he left The Union to become Managing Editor and then Editor of MAINSTREAM and MAINSTREAM online, the authoritative national News & Advocacy magazine for people with disabilities. This move was a homecoming. Stothers worked for MAINSTREAM in his free time for years, especially after he and his wife, Cyndi Jones, the publisher, bought the magazine in 1984 from a failing non-profit organization.
Stothers, who had polio in 1950, speaks and writes widely on disability issues and on issues of ethics in the media, as well as media criticism.
Contact him at editor at mainstream-mag.com
Back to the Mainstream Home page