And check out the new beat they have planned for him.

From the June 20 Toronto Star:

The country's only Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, who cut his reportorial teeth at the Star before travelling the globe as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is returning to this newspaper for one of his most challenging assignments yet.

Watson "is coming back to launch a unique venture – the world's first multimedia Arctic-Aboriginal beat," Star editor Michael Cooke said in a note to staff earlier this week.

"Climate change, new technologies and the voracious global demand for energy and other resources have set off a rush to explore the Far North unlike any other in history," Cooke said in his announcement. "There is no one better to take on this enormous challenge than our own Paul Watson."

Watson won his Pulitzer while working for the Toronto Star in 1993. He was in Mogadishu, Somalia during the "Black Hawk down" crisis and took a stunning photo of a U.S. helicopter crewman's body being dragged through the streets there.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the Star and Watson do with this new beat.

However, it's not like other journalists or news organizations haven't written about the Arctic (the CBC, for example, has a far northern bureau). Ed Struzik of the Edmonton Journal comes to mind. In fact, the Journal once had a far northern correspondent.

Cooke should know that. He was once a senior editor at the Journal.