It is with sadness that we announce the passing of former OCNA president and executive director Harry Stemp.
The Ontario Community Newspapers Association (OCNA) is quite pleased with the announcement that Premier Doug Ford has directed Ontario's Crown corporations to invest 25 per cent of their advertising spend to Ontario-based news businesses.
Sam Laurin joined the family-owned Morrisburg Leader in 1977 -- along with his brother Terry and later his brother Mike -- becoming the third generation of Laurin's to run the 160-year-old paper. Since then, Sam and his family have worked hard...
Peter Winkler spent 36 years in the newspaper business as a leader both in ad sales and as a publisher, bringing value and growing every publication he worked for. He began his career at the Kitchener-Waterloo Record...
On Labour Day 1985, Mark Ribble walked into the composing room of the Leamington Post beginning a career that has seen him work in almost every area of the newspaper business. During high school, Mark dreamed about becoming a broadcast journalist...
Bob Hall was born with ink in his veins and naturally followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather into the newspaper industry. His parents, Gordon and Marion, purchased the Haldimand Advocate in 1931 with Bob coming along in 1937. By 16...
Jack Evans has been a journalistic stalwart for over 65 years and is currently the dean of news in the Bay of Quinte area. Jack was bitten by the journalism bug during his time as a boy chorister in Belleville where, using a borrowed typewriter...
The world is coming to Toronto in June. Meet with community newspaper editors from across the globe to learn, grow and become part of a family who understand the joys and challenges of what it is we do.
Established farm newspapers for sale serving the horticultural and agricultural industries in South-Central Ontario...
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After attending Carleton University in Ottawa, and an adventure of discovery through Europe in the early 1970s, Atkins worked briefly for the federal government in the newly amalgamated city of Thunder Bay where he...
Abbas Homayed came to Canada in 1986 with little money and little English. The community where he has made his home now is a true testament to his hard work, civic leadership and the will to make a difference...
Keith Roulston grew up during a time when neighbours came together to undertake tasks that were too big to accomplish alone. The lesson that community action can help the individual achieve his or her goals has been a guiding principle in his life...
Murray Skinner's newspaper career spans over 40 years, 33 of them with Metroland, preceded by 8 years with Thomson Newspapers. He served as Metroland's vice president of marketing for 19 years, before being appointed president in 2000...
Jim Thomas' career in the newspaper business spanned eight decades. He still remembers his first story, which was published in the Markham Economist and Sun while attending high school...
143 year old community Newspaper and printing operation for sale. Click for more details.
William (Bill) Charles Cavell began is over 72-year career in the newspaper business in a small way. Learning that his high school had no newspaper, Bill stepped in to fill the void with a mimeographed sheet that he sold to fellow students...
Wayne Green's newspaper career began at the age of 16 in 1951, right out of high school, as an "apprentice printer" at the Temiskaming Speaker Printing Company (TPC) in New Liskeard, printer of the Temiskaming Speakers weekly newspapers...
Ron Lenyk began his career in 1970, working for the Mississauga News as a sports reporter and was promoted to sports editor not a year later. By June 1971, he was promoted to editor and in 1977 was named publisher of the Brampton Guardian...
Jack Morris began his newspaper career at the Chesterville Record in the 1920s as a "printers devil" and spent 65 years in the community newspaper business. It would be been more, but he served as an intelligence officer in WWII...
The OCNA and their member newspapers are very proud to celebrate the excellence of the final recipients of the 2021 Ontario Junior Citizen Awards.
The OCNA will be announcing and celebrating the winners of the 2023 BNC Awards on Friday May 24th at 12;00 noon. Link to view the presentation will be available soon! Watch your inbox for the link.
The OCNA and Ad*Reach office will be closed on Monday, October 11. Please enjoy a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
The OCNA and Ad*Reach office will be closed on Monday, September 6 for Labour Day.