Wendy Metcalfe

Wendy Metcalfe (born 1975 or 1976) is a Canadian journalist, editor and news executive who served as the first female editor-in-chief of the Toronto Sun newspaper between 2013 and 2015, and of the Ottawa Sun newspaper from 2014 to 2015. Since August 2021, she has served as Hearst Connecticut Media Group's (HCMG) senior vice president of content and editor-in-chief. Metcalfe began her career as a volunteer sports anchor at a local cable television network before moving to the United Kingdom to begin her full-time media career at various newspapers. In 2011, she was appointed to work for Sun Media as regional managing editor for ten newspapers and was editor-in-chief of the St. Catharines Standards newspaper and website.

Biography Metcalfe was born in either 1975 or 1976, She was an athlete at high school, Metcalfe is a graduate of University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts degree and studied journalism at Humber College. She began her media career working as a volunteer sports anchor at a local cable television network after her suggestion of better coverage of local women's sports teams to broaden their output was taken on board.

She began her full-time media career at the Lincolnshire Echo newspaper in the United Kingdom as a features writer in November 1998; She later became the newspaper's senior news reporter, assistant news editor and deputy news editor. She then became assistant editor of the Evening Express newspaper in Aberdeen, a role she held from August 2006 to September 2007. She was later appointed editor-in-chief of the Greenock Telegraph and Inverclyde Extra daily newspapers and held both jobs between March 2008 and April 2011. Metcalfe was also made Sun Media's regional content director. In May 2015, she left both the Toronto Sun and the Ottawa Sun. Metcalfe joined the Toronto Star two months later; she became its national editor and was later made its assistant managing editor. Metcalfe was a Master of Ceremony of the 2017 Atlantic Journalism Awards held at Halifax Harbourfront Marriott Hotel on April 28, 2018. In October 2019, she was named the new vice president of content and editor-in-chief of Hearst Connecticut Media Group (HCMG), replacing Matt DeRienzo, and moved to Connecticut. Metcalfe oversees eight dailies as well as several community weeklies, websites, Connecticut Magazine and other specialty publications that are owned by HCMG She was promoted to senior vice president of content in August 2021. Hartford Business Journal named her to its "2021 Power 50" list in February 2021.

Personal life She has two children with her husband.