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The Manitoulin Expositor is a Canadian weekly newspaper, published in Little Current, Ontario to serve residents of Manitoulin Island. [1] Launched in 1879 by editor William Loe Smith, it is the oldest still-extant newspaper in the Northern Ontario region. [2]

The paper is nationally most noted for winning the Michener Award for public service journalism in 1982, for its investigation into the high local suicide rate. [3] The investigation led to the launch of a community-operated suicide prevention hotline. [4]

The paper was acquired in 1970 by Rick McCutcheon, who had joined the paper as an editor in 1968. [4] He remains the paper's owner and publisher emeritus today, although he is semi-retired and day to day operations as editor and publisher are now handled by his daughter Alicia McCutcheon. [5] In 2020, Rick McCutcheon was inducted into the Ontario Community Newspapers Association's Hall of Fame. [6]

In 2001, the paper acquired the formerly competing Manitoulin West Recorder in Gore Bay. [2] Both titles are still in operation as of 2020. [5]

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References

  1. Jim Moodie, "Looking back fondly on days at the Expositor". Sudbury Star , August 10, 1999.
  2. 1 2 Jim Moodie, "The island's two weekly papers become one". Sudbury Star , March 20, 2001.
  3. "Suicide articles win award for Manitoulin Expositor". Winnipeg Free Press , November 14, 1983.
  4. 1 2 Rudy Platiel, "Tragic honor: Editor risked exploitation charge to sound suicide alarm". The Globe and Mail , March 26, 1984.
  5. 1 2 Bob Chiarito, "As community papers struggle, one island news outlet thrives by sticking to shoe-leather tactics". Gateway Journalism Review , October 8, 2019.
  6. "Rick McCutcheon inducted into newspaper hall of fame". Manitoulin Expositor, May 20, 2020.