Aaron Epp

Reporter

Aaron Epp has had a passion for print journalism ever since he was in middle school, devouring issues of Guitar World magazine. None of the reading he did amounted to playing the guitar like Eddie Van Halen, but it did teach him how to tell compelling stories.

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Aaron took over the volunteer column at the Free Press in 2014. He joined the paper full-time in 2024 as a business reporter.

Before arriving at the Free Press, Aaron spent a decade as a writer, editor and social media manager at Canadian Mennonite.

Working at a biweekly magazine with a small staff gave him the opportunity to write a range of stories, from reporting on a Winnipeg church whose congregation was defrauded to the tune of $1 million, to interviewing the Mennonite siblings who played strings on U2’s legendary 1987 album The Joshua Tree.

“Young Voices,” the Canadian Mennonite section Aaron wrote for and edited from 2013 to 2019, was recognized in the Departments category at the Canadian Church Press Awards on four occasions: first place in 2015 and 2019, and second place in 2014 and 2017.

In his free time, Aaron enjoys listening to music, testing new pizza recipes, watching horror movies and hanging out on the porch of his Wolseley home with his wife and cat.

He still reads Guitar World and he still can’t play Eruption.