Write Away Communications
A newspaper design and management consultancy with hands-on abilities, matched with public relations and marketing know-how. The company is owned and operated by award-winning newspaper editor Mike Toth.
- Newsroom management
- Design, editing, writing of newspapers, magazines, newsletters
- Marketing
- Public relations
About Mike Toth:
Newspaper work:
- Editor of The Mississauga News, 1979-1992, in which time the newspaper won more than 150 awards of excellence in the Suburban Newspapers of America Association and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.
- Canada's Sportswriter of the Year, (Sports Federation of Canada)
- Elected to Mississauga's Sports Hall of Fame as a builder, 1993
- Ontario Gymnastic Federation Ontario Media Award
- Canadian Certificate of Merit, Federal Government
- Arts Appreciation Award, Mississauga Arts Council
- Honorary Member, Mississauga Kinsmen Service Club
- Media Award, Mississauga Central Lions Service Club
- Appreciation Award, Mississauga Jaycees
In the Community
- Chairman, Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame Committee
- Chairman, Mississauga Sports Council Steering Committee
- Chairman/20-year member Mississauga Sports Celebrities Dinner Committee
- Chairman, Central Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled
- Board of Directors, The Mississauga News Christmas Bureau Fund
- Executive Council, Hamilton/Wentworth Lung Association
- Sheridan College Journalism Department Advisory Board
- Mississauga Arts Council Membership / Marketing Committees
- Mississauga Board of Trade Communications Committee
- UNICEF Mississauga Committee
- Mississauga Citizen of the Year Organizing Committee
- Mississauga Sports Awards Committee (annual)
- Vice-President, Ontario Minor Soccer Association
- Miss Mississauga and Miss Teen Mississauga Pageant Organizing Committees
- Judge, Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Award (for seven years)
- Judge, Canadian, Ontario, Atlantic and B.C. Community Newspaper Associations competitions (1980 1993)
- Our Place Peel, Regional Youth Shelter Anniversary Advisory Committee
As a public speaker:
- New York State Press Association State Convention, Albany, N.Y.
- UNICEF of Canada National Convention, Toronto, Ont.
- Canadian National Crime Prevention Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
- Ontario Arts Council Provincial Convention, Toronto, Ontario
- Ontario Newspaper Educators Conference, Oakville, Ontario
- Canadian Armed Forces Media Conference, Edmonton, Alberta
- University of Toronto Media Workshop, Erindale College, Mississauga, Ontario
- Canadian Community Newspapers Association Conventions, Toronto and Edmonton
- Ontario Community Newspapers Association Convention, Toronto, Ontario
- Atlantic Community Newspapers Convention, Halifax, N.S.
- Dufferin Peel Roman Catholic School Principals Conference, Toronto, Ontario
- Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing Co. workshops (series of eight)
- Hamilton Public Relations Society, Hamilton, Ontario
- Sheridan College, Journalism, Oakville, Ontario
- Toronto Parkdale Rotary Club, Toronto, Ontario
Phone (905) 826-5041 to talk to Mike Toth
E-mail
Information presented by Edna Toth