Born and raised in South Florida, Marty Klinkenberg’s lengthy newspaper career has taken him from covering high school sports in Miami to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the war in Afghanistan and well beyond. A three-time winner of Canadian National Newspaper Awards, he ranks among the most decorated journalists in the country and currently is a reporter for the Globe and Mail, Canada’s daily national newspaper. On his most recent assignment, he spent a year following hockey sensation Connor McDavid during his rookie season with the Edmonton Oilers. The latter led to him also writing a book called The McDavid Effect that will be published in the fall of 2016 by Simon & Schuster.
Originally a sports, outdoors and environmental writer for dailies in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, he has also worked on Wall Street for the final services website The Street.com, was an editor and writer who covered the New York Mets in one season for Newsday, served as a copy editor at The New York Times, and was an editor, senior writer and columnist for The New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He currently resides in Edmonton and remains a national sports writer for the Globe and Mail.
In 2013, a series of stories that he wrote was turned into a motion picture called Still Mine that starred the great American actor James Cromwell and received a number of nominations for Canadian film awards.
Originally a sports, outdoors and environmental writer for dailies in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, he has also worked on Wall Street for the final services website The Street.com, was an editor and writer who covered the New York Mets in one season for Newsday, served as a copy editor at The New York Times, and was an editor, senior writer and columnist for The New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He currently resides in Edmonton and remains a national sports writer for the Globe and Mail.
In 2013, a series of stories that he wrote was turned into a motion picture called Still Mine that starred the great American actor James Cromwell and received a number of nominations for Canadian film awards.