TORONTO — Political journalist Andrew Coyne says he has resigned as editor of editorials and comment for the National Post in a "professional disagreement" with the newspaper.
He said he will stay on as a columnist with the paper.
The disagreement came about because of a piece Coyne had written expressing support for a party other than the one endorsed by the newspaper.
In a series of tweets explaining his decision to resign the editorial editor's position, Coyne said Postmedia executives felt that "dissenting from the Post's endorsement of the Conservatives would have confused readers and embarrassed the paper."
Coyne says he sees his role as a columnist to express his honest opinion on matters of public interest, regardless of whether the paper he's writing for shares those views.
Coyne also tweeted that owners and managers of a newspaper "have a perfect right to set the paper's editorial line as they wish."
Neither Coyne nor the National Post could be immediately reached for comment.
