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WE'RE HITTING THE AIRWAVES WITH A NEW PODCAST

ADAM MARTIN-ROBBINS Column Adam Martin-Robbins is managing editor of Metroland's seven Simcoe County newspapers and Simcoe.com. We welcome your questions and value your comments. Email our trust committee at trust@metroland.com.

It’s about trust. Our relationship with our readers is built on transparency, honesty and integrity. As such, we have launched a trust initiative to tell you who we are and how and why we do what we do. This column is part of that project.

Although I've worked at newspapers for close to 20 years, I have a deep-seated passion for radio broadcasting — and have since I was a kid.

In fact, when I first started out in journalism, I had my sights set on working at CBC Radio. I did my internship at CBC Ideas, where I was lucky to work with some of the country's finest radio documentary producers and I'd hoped to get hired on after graduating.

But a few things — including the birth of my twin daughters and an untimely labour dispute — conspired to push me toward a career in community newspapers, which I've thoroughly enjoyed.

But my love of radio began long before journalism school.

Many of my favourite childhood memories involve listening to the radio — whether it was listening the play-by-play announcers while watching the Blue Jays game on TV with the volume off (something my dad taught me); staying up way past my bedtime glued to the great phone-in radio shows of the 1980s or cranking up the car stereo whenever one of my favourite songs came on while I was out driving around the suburbs as a teenager.

Given that, it should come as no surprise that I've become a big fan of podcasts. It's for that reason that I'm delighted to announce Metroland's Simcoe County news team — a multitalented group of journalists — is launching a podcast, "Inside Simcoe," hosted by reporter Brett Glover.

This new initiative, months in the making, is just one more way for us to deliver you important local news stories that impact your lives, whether you live in Alliston, Barrie, Collingwood, Innisfil, Midland, Orillia, Wasaga Beach or one of the myriad communities in between.

"Inside Simcoe" is a weekly podcast that drops Friday afternoons on Simcoe.com and most major podcast directories. We will bring you a recap of the news that's important to you and take a deep dive into the issues that matter to our communities.

Given this is a new initiative, we'd love to hear your thoughts about what we're doing and any suggestions you might have for how we can best serve you, our readers ... and listeners.

If you want to send in feedback, please shoot us an email at newsroom@ simcoe.com.

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