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www.northumberlandtoday.com THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE â€" Thursday, July 10, 2008 â€"5 | | | Commentary 3 e ® e Mandy Martin recognized at national newspaper awards i paper editor. She cares deeply about her hero". magazine division of Southam | By Bob Owen community and the newspaper‘s role in it, The editorial director admits she was â€" Communications (the building today houses | } lowen@xplomet.com and visibly bristles at any suggested slight Xllrilled at beic{lgfl selected for the honour. %he National Post) and travelled the world | 3 ols : to either. ways one to deflect praise to her staff, Ms. . for 3.5 years. N ol}affifglmifi%he%fi%filfih?f: Cg;ffi’;,“;% "Mandy chose the community she wanted Martin says, "Our newsroom is small, From 1984â€"93, she worked for Ontario } newspapers, was named one of two Unsung to live and work in and dedicated herself to 1ntensz_3 a_nd fiercely committed to ethical, â€" Hydro, first as a corporate relations officer Herogs l;t t}ie National Newspaper Awards it. No one works harder or sets higher hardâ€"hitting stories. We live here. We have. . in eastern Ontario, then as a business/office | in Toronto May 9. The honour recognizes 1sltandards. Northumberland is blessed to â€" roots here. Wci1 are passionate about what we malnager. rhen hgdro began paying people | 3 itan ave her." ty Ts ts 95 to leave, she opted to complete a university g‘:tsifir:';}ll‘;Ig;ssegv‘:f,h:sigé?;{fgéo%gggg Darren Murphy now publishes TD % | _ The National Newspaper . degree at Queen‘s (history and psychology), Weroes:are thlza %edicated edifors ana thp Peterboroug}; Examiner and waF : /m & Awar_ds have been Canada‘s graduating in 1995 on the Dean‘s Honour ournalists in small cities and towns around Lindsay Post, having moved there i,; _‘ ‘WRRV premier journalism awards Role for academic achievement (highest Jthe country after two years at Northumberland $Â¥ Q _ WR / for close to 60 years. acaddemlcostangmg of all convocating as" F Publishers. I o. EK _ The awards were . students). Over the next two years, she tried wr(ijtlglfz??}?e S&?:;Zréuflaazzgfigbgélf}f:; "Over the time I worked with / c td .. '{ established by the mnow her hand in an MPP‘s office, worked as a | as "the Heropalot Canadiar’x journalism". In Amanda in Northumberland, I was wa~ <" _ Toronto Press Club thanks to . conference and catering manager and did announcing the honour, Ms Spen'cer impressed on a daily basis with her l T _ a generous donation from the some retail s}ziles. 5 * es dedication to our readers and to ; | late George McCullagh, then In 1997, when a reporter position came up g:g:‘;i%;dofgfi:s;:a;itn,?c:rggla with oomneremmnanices uin se astved ‘ president and publisher with bac]zéat thefobougg {Daily Star, she signed i 7 j Anifi Mandy demonstrates an. The Globe and Mail and the â€" on. Several months later, she was named -oumlz\fi?;%ghol\%?fi: ig S‘:fi:fi%‘;gififinti?ye exceptional work ethic and works . Toronto Telegram. editor of the Colborne Chronicle and a new JShe started at age 17 in 1969 at the old Oigently to uphold our core values _ An edited version of Ms. weekly (now gone), the Apple Gazette in Easeu, Sen.tinegl-Star in 1971; sha was and core purpose. A pleasure to . R@Re® Martin‘s bio is included Brighton. farmen rianaging Etm you’ngest at a Work with and an asset to our Mandy Marti below. She and her partner, Lanny Murphy, daily newspaper in Canada. That‘s at age 19. _ COMPany, Mandy is very deserving angy mardn At the age of 17, Ms. Martin relocated from Prince Edward County to «in 1997, it was back to the Cobourg Daily of’gus recognition." p started in the news ‘pusmess Colborne in Nort}_mmberland County‘s Star asa 1: eporter, then on to her current A The fact Fhat Mandy_ was reco§nlzed for as a reporter at then Cobourg Sentinelâ€"Star _ Cramahe Township in 199_9. _ ositionins editoriayl director of: the Cobourg this honour is no surprise to me," says her â€" in thg days of lead type. The owner, the late In 2003, she was appomted editor of the | %ail Star, Port Hope Eveniné Guids angia 1 Chrrent publisher, Don MacLeod. "Mandy . Dr. Jim Johnston, was a fierce advocate of â€" Cobourg Daily Star and in 2006, editorial I num)l; cr of’weeklies all part of the Osprey has worked tirelessly helping to produce the . quality and depth in newspapers. director of the daily newspapers, the | i i best local newspaper in the area for years After 10 years in which Northumberland _ Cobourg Daily Star and Port Hope Evening | gr(xu;iumber OOME Martin scursentiand and is also very involved in the community. Publishers acquired four additional Guide, weeklies Colborne Chromicle and | Formemaobervis ofs favelaadedito tnoge I know that recognition is the last thing on . newspapers (the Port Hope Evening Guide, â€" Northumberland Weekly and the quarterly | meded IVFS Spencer to provide a clearer her mind while dedication and followâ€" the Campbeliford Herald, the Newcastle GO! _ Magazine, all _ owned _ by picture %fwfiat%he eanoeimiainector meins through are first and foremost. She is very Reporter and Colborne Chronicle) and Northumberland Publishers, part of the to the publishing business deserving of this and I am extremely proud . entered the computer age, she spread her Osprey businesses now known as Sun Htardnâ€"Cbi of her and very much enjoy working with _ wings. She had previously volunteered as a . Media, a Quebecor company. To&c?r?to %L:;lnclg :a gglgt_?il;n;nagsr:)fi;t: gftt}};g such a professional." photographer/instructor in Honduras and "What goes on in smaller communities i i j R Retired vice president of the Canadian Costa Rica, Central America, for nine matters, often on provincial and national f Cramahe Township resident. He writes W 3 ; "Mandy is the quintessential 'communitg; Newspapers Association, Bryan Cantley months. In 1981, she signed on as an â€" stages. 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