Martin Hudson

Decades of experience in what was, until recently, known as the newspaper industry allows me the luxury of comfort and confidence in approaching the job of managing editor.

While primarily a words and design guy in the past, as that was what was mainly asked of me, I have the experience and the temperament to succeed and excel in almost any 'newsroom' role.

The surprising 2015 merger of Postmedia and Sun Media resulted in a personal mandate to carry forward and preserve the Sun brand.

I believe I accomplished that to the best of my abilities and helped a shell-shocked, sometimes confused staff make sense of our new world.

And then came COVID!

And with it, the then unimaginable challenge of working from home.

Surprisingly, we got the job done, although there is no disputing the damage the restrictions did to the already challenged industry.

Fast forward to today, having been removed from the business for 18 months or so, I can safely say I follow local and world events as closely as ever.

Prior to getting into journalism at 18, I worked as a busboy, a milkman's assistant, in an interior design store, and, of course, delivering The Calgary Herald..