Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Manitoulin Publishing Company Ltd |
Founder(s) | William Loe Smith |
Founded | 1879 |
Headquarters | 1 Manitowaning Road
Little Current, Ontario P0P 1K0 |
Website | https://www.manitoulin.com/ |
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]