Rik Davie
Managing Editor of The Scugog Standard

Rik graduated from Durham College with an Honours Degree in Journalism and worked as a police and courts reporter for Hollinger Newspaper at The Durham Post, Thompson Newspapers at The Lindsay Post as well as an on-air reporter for CHEX television before coming to The Port Perry Star in 1997 as a staff reporter/photographer covering police, municipal government and education.
_ Rik was a founding staff member of The Uxbridge Star and has written for The Toronto Star, Blue Line (the national police magazine) and Education Today.
_While at Durham College he won the Ontario Community Newspaper Award for student writing for his coverage of the Gagnon Sports Store murder trial.
_He also won the OCNA National Newspaper Award for news photography in 2006 for coverage of the fatal fire on Crandle St. in Port Perry.
_Rik and his wife and partner Linda led the core group of people who formed The Scugog Standard seven years ago.
_The paper has since grown to the largest independently owned weekly newspaper in Durham Region and has been awarded one national and three provincial newspaper awards in the fields of news coverage and advertising design.
_His weekly column, Standard Transmissions is read by over 14,000 people weekly and his news team has recently begun to expand in the area of specialty publishing.
_He has interviewed three Prime Ministers, Two Premiers and one Oscar Winner as well as numerous people who think they are one of the three above.