Toronto Star editor-in-chief Fred Kuntz is resigning, effective Dec. 31, the Financial Post reports.

According to FP, several sources at the newspaper confirmed the news on Dec. 16, but a Star spokesperson did not comment.

John Cruickshank was named the Star‘s new publisher in November after Jagoda Pike quit to head Ontario’s bid for the 2015 Pan American Games.Cruickshank is slated to take over on January 1, 2009.