Expositor takes home hardware from annual newspaper awards

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Expositor takes home hardware from annual newspaper awards

Expositor Staff

May 27, 2015 - 2 min read

Brent Cooper, left, who was born and raised in Little Current, received the Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s ‘Silver Quill’ award at last weekend’s Newspapers Canada conference in Toronto. Mr. Cooper, shown here being congratulated by Manitoulin Expositor publisher Rick McCutcheon, began his quarter-century long career at The Expositor Office as a Manitoulin Secondary School co-op student where he was encouraged by Expositor staff to consider the newspaper business as a career. He did, graduating from Canadore College’s journalism program, and worked two summers for The Expositor before beginning his first full-time job 25 years ago at the Elliot Lake Standard. For more than a decade he has been a reporter at the Huntsville Forester where he is also actively involved with community volunteer activities. This was not Mr. Cooper’s only accolade last weekend: he won the Ontario Community Newspapers Association’s award for best news story and co-won, with colleagues, the award for best special section. Mr. Cooper is the son of Don Cooper of the Green Bush.