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Staff Biographies
Please select the individual below that you would like to know more about.
Administration
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Bob Cox
Publisher
Bob Cox was named publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press in November 2007.
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Margo Goodhand
Editor
Margo Goodhand is the first female Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press.
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Julie Carl
Deputy editor
Julie Carl’s mother begged her not to go to journalism school as it is well known only losers go to journalism school and she didn’t think she could bear the shame of it.
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Steve Pona
Associate Editor
Steve is associate editor of the newspaper and also edits the Business section.
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John White
Deputy Editor, Online
John White is a geek, tech-junkie and journalist. This proves to be an effective combination as Deputy Editor, Online for the Free Press.
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Wendy Sawatzky
Online content manager
A nerd from way back, Wendy Sawatzky brings twin passions for writing and technology to her job as online content manager at the Free Press.
Business
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Martin Cash
Reporter
Martin Cash joined the Free Press in 1987 as the paper’s business columnist.
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Murray McNeill
Reporter
After 18 years as a plough jockey in training, Murray left the farm and moved to the big city (Winnipeg). The plan was to work for a year to save up money to go to university and become a conservation officer.
City
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Paul Samyn
City editor
As a boy growing up in Winnipeg, Paul Samyn used to deliver the Free Press while dreaming of a National Hockey League career.
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Jason Bell
Assistant city editor
After writing for newspapers and corporate newsletters (and selling Sealy beds, too), Jason Bell finally made it to the big time in 2002.
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Carl DeGurse
Assistant city editor
Carl DeGurse is an Assistant City Editor who secretly wishes his colleagues would refer to him by his position’s acronym.
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Helen Fallding
Assistant City Editor
Helen Fallding was born in Australia and raised in southern Ontario.
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Gabrielle Giroday
Reporter
Gabrielle has handled the police and crime beat for the Winnipeg Free Press since 2009, meaning she’s seen the best and worst humanity has to offer.
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Bartley Kives
City hall reporter
Bartley Kives wants you to know his last name rhymes with Beavis, as in Beavis and Butthead.
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Larry Kusch
Legislature reporter
Larry Kusch has been a journalist for 30 years, the last 20 with the Winnipeg Free Press.
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Dan Lett
Columnist
Dan Lett came to Winnipeg in 1986, less than a year out of journalism school. Despite the fact that he’s originally from Toronto and has a fatal attraction to the Maple Leafs, Winnipeggers let him stay.
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Melissa Martin
Reporter
An aspiring media mogul for the post-media mogul world, Melissa Martin is a word mercenary, a closet cat lady, and the best Lady GaGa impersonator in western Canada.
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Nick Martin
Education reporter
Nick Martin is the old bearded guy at the back of the newsroom, the most experienced reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press, having started his career in Ontario in 1971.
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Mike McIntyre
Justice reporter
Journalist, national radio show host, author, webmaster, pundit and cruise director ... Mike McIntyre loves to keep busy!
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Bruce Owen
Legislative reporter
Bruce Owen joined the Winnipeg Free Press in 1990 after four years working in other media.
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Alex Paul
Reporter
Alex cut her teeth as a cub reporter in the days after Watergate.
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Mia Rabson
Parliamentary bureau chief
Mia Rabson's interest in politics seemed clear when she dressed up as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for Halloween in the 7th grade.
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Bill Redekop
Regional reporter
Bill Redekop comes by his love of traveling across Manitoba naturally.
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Lindor Reynolds
Columnist
Lindor Reynolds began work at the Free Press as a 17-year-old proofreader. She was fired three weeks later.
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Kevin Rollason
Reporter
Kevin Rollason was in elementary school when he decided he wanted to be a writer. He was in high school when he came to the realization that it’s pretty hard to put food on the table if you’re a writer in Canada.
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Carol Sanders
Reporter
Reporter Carol Sanders returned to her roots in Winnipeg in 1997 to join the Free Press — just as the Flood of the Century hit.
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Aldo Santin
Reporter
Aldo Santin is a veteran newspaper reporter, having joined Winnipeg Free Press in 1986.
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Doug Speirs
Columnist
Doug Speirs’ humour column, In the Doug House, has appeared on Page 2 of the Winnipeg Free Press at least three times a week since 2006. No one is exactly sure why.
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Randy Turner
Reporter
While attending Boissevain High School in the late 1970’s, Randy Turner one day read an account of a Winnipeg Jets game in the Free Press when it dawned on him: "Really, you can get paid to watch sports?"
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Mary Agnes Welch
Public policy reporter
Mary Agnes Welch joined the Free Press in 2002, first as a general assignment reporter and then covering city hall and the Manitoba legislature before moving to her current post.
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Lindsey Wiebe
Reporter
Lindsey Wiebe grew up on a farm in rural Manitoba. She took her first run at getting hired by the Free Press at the age of 13: after winning a prize in a creative writing contest sponsored by the paper, she figured she’d be a shoo-in.
Editorial
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Catherine Mitchell
Columnist
Catherine Mitchell got her first real job taking direction from an editor named Twaddle. She figured there might be room for her in this business, too.
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David O’Brien
Columnist
David O’Brien worked for the Dauphin Herald, Brandon Sun, Winnipeg Tribune and Winnipeg Sun before joining the Winnipeg Free Press in 1981.
Entertainment & Life
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Randall King
Reporter
In a way, Randall King was born into the entertainment beat.
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Alison Mayes
Reporter
Alison Mayes holds a BA in film studies from the University of Manitoba and studied journalism at Ryerson University.
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Brad Oswald
Reporter
Way back when Brad Oswald was TV-inclined little kid, his exasperated mother used to say things like, “Would you PLEASE turn that thing off and go OUTSIDE and play?"
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Chris Smith
Columnist
Chris Smith has been a jazz fan since, as a teen, he discovered Miles Davis on a mono LP version of the classic Kind of Blue album among his brother’s collection.
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Carolin Vesely
Reporter
Carolin Vesely’s first newspaper gig was at a rural Alberta weekly where the reporters shared a typewriter and developed and printed their own photos.
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Morley Walker
Columnist / Books editor
Morley Walker edits the Free Press Books section and the letters to the editor.
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Rob Williams
Reporter
Rob Williams started his career at the Winnipeg Free Press as a paper carrier on Ingersoll Street in 1985.
Photos & Graphics
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Joe Bryksa
Photojournalist
Joe Bryksa was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied photojournalism at Red River College in Winnipeg and began his career in the mid-1980s at community and other newspapers in the city.
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Mike Deal
Photojournalist
Mike Deal’s first day at the Winnipeg Free Press was supposed to be September 12, 2001. But when he woke to the news of the two towers on September 11, he automatically headed into the newsroom.
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Ken Gigliotti
Photojournalist
Ken Gigliotti started at the Winnipeg Free Press as a staff photographer in 1979.
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Wayne Glowacki
Photographer
Wayne started working at the Free Press as a copyboy in 1974 at the age of eighteen ripping news wire stories off old printing machines and hand delivering them to news and sports editors.
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Phil Hossack
Photojournalist
Phil Hossack joined the Free Press in 1983 after four years working for the Brandon Sun.
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Tyler Walsh
Multimedia editor
You might think a newspaper would be a strange place for a television news producer to land a job, but for Free Press multimedia editor Tyler Walsh, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.
Sports
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Gary Lawless
Reporter
Gary Lawless has been with the Free Press since 1999.
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Ashley Prest
Reporter
When Ashley Prest was hired as a sports writer in 1987, just three months out of university, she thought she was being fired every day.
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Ed Tait
Reporter
Read into this what you will, but Ed Tait’s career in the newspaper business officially began on April Fool’s Day, 1987.
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Adam Wazny
Reporter
Hailing from Cooks Creek, Adam is comfortable in the knowledge that he is a cliché, having turned to sports writing after it became apparent he wasn’t going to crack an NHL roster.
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