The same summer, Martyn created the images used in Composition, Reaction, and Equilibrium — the first photographically illustrated laboratory manual for undergraduate chemistry students.
[4] After returning to Canada in fall 1969, Martyn worked at freelance photography and eventually joined the staff of Gilbert A. Milne Ltd.
In 1981, he moved to the Toronto Sun, then an independent daily tabloid, where he worked on the “rim” — the news copy-editing desk.
In 1986 he was hired by Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, where he rotated through various editing positions to become Deputy Foreign Editor for nine years (1998-2007), through the turbulent election of George W. Bush, the 9/11 attacks, the Afghanistan War, the invasion of Iraq, until 2007.
He also worked as a copy editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s online news site, cbcnews.ca, and at the daily Metro Toronto newspaper.
[7] In the 2007-08 academic year, he was a Teaching Assistant for the Business section of Centretown News, a 17,000-circulation community newspaper put out by fourth-year students at Carleton University.