Carolyn Brereton (nee Murray) was a former Ottawa newspaper editor. (Born June 27, 1955) in Hong Kong. She is a British Citizen and later in 1990, became a Canadian citizen by living with her husband. She has dual citizenship of British and Canadian. She was born to John and Katrine Murray. John worked for the British Foreign Service, and Katrine was a housewife, who was American. At the age of seven, her father retired and the family moved to Haslemere, Surrey, England. She has one older brother named Ian. She went to an all girls school during her education. She later went on to university, and later went to Oxford University. She also attended Carleton University when she came to Canada in 1987 and Algonquin College to enhance her skills to be a newspaper editor.

Carolyn got excepted into the British Foreign Serivce and went on posting to Havana, Cuba in June 1981. She worked at The British Embassy in Havana. During the posting, she met a Canadian diplomat named Stephen Brereton, and later married him in her hometown of Haslemere on July 31, 1982. Carolyn went on posting to Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan, and Brussels, Belgium. She helped out at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on a regular basis. During those postings, her husband worked for the Canadian missions, and she relaxed at home. She had two sons named James and William, who were born before the posting to Brussels on August 31, 1991. They are twins. The family left on September 1992 and returned in 1996. Carolyn got involved in the kid's school and fought vigorously to not close Crichton Street Public School, in New Edinburgh, Ottawa, Ontario. Carolyn had been vice chair in the parent council for Crichton School. She had been a parent at Crichton in 1996-1999. Crichton Street Public School closed on June 1999. From 2000-2005, she was the editor of "New Edinburgh News" and from 1999-2003, she was the editor of "Manor Park Chronicle". She succeeded Barbara Benoit, who previously been editor of both newspapers. Both of the papers are local community newspapers in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 2003, Carolyn left the "Manor Park Chronicle", because her kids were graduating the school that was local to Manor Park, which is the school James and William attended. The school was called Manor Park Public School. Carolyn regularly vonteered at Manor Park, by helping out in the classroom to organizing pizza lunches. She also was vice chair at the parent's council in 1999-2001. She had been a parent at the school in 1999-2003. In 2005, she left the "New Edinburgh News" to go on another posting to Buffalo, New York, USA. Stephen became the Canadian Consul General in Buffalo, New York. Cindy Parkanyi replaced Carolyn for the New Edinburgh News, and Sharleen Tattersfield replaced Carolyn for the Manor Park Chronicle. In 2002, Carolyn got nominated for the "National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award". Her category was The Ottawa Citizen Community Volunteer Award. During her editorship, Carolyn fought Ottawa City Hall from closing libraries in Ottawa, because of cuts to budget. The fight was successful. In January 2005, she made a newspaper presentation at Summit Alternative School to tell children about the layout of the newspaper, and how do make a newspaper for a school project that the Grade 8 English teacher started. That was the school that her sons attended. She was a parent in 2003-2005 at Summit Alternative. She volunteers regularly with Park School of Buffalo, where her sons attend presently. She is now living in Buffalo, New York, USA.