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The London Free Press
''The London Free Press'' is a daily newspaper based in London, Ontario, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Southwestern Ontario. History ''The London Free Press'' began as the ''Canadian Free Press'', founded by William Sutherland. It first began printing as a weekly newspaper on January 2, 1849. In 1852, it was purchased for $500 by Josiah Blackburn (and Stephen Blackburn), who renamed it ''The London Free Press and Daily Western Advertiser''. In 1855 Blackburn turned the weekly newspaper into a daily. From 1863 to 1936 ''The London Free Press'' competed for readership with the '' London Advertiser'', which was a daily evening newspaper. The ''Free Press'' has usually been a morning paper, but for many years, it also published an evening paper. Both morning and evening editions were published from the 1950s through to 1981, when the evening edition was permanently retired. The Blackburn family was also involved in other forms of media in London. They ...
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ...
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Sun Media Corporation
Sun Media Corporation was the owner of several tabloid and broadsheet newspapers in Canada and the 49 percent owner of the now defunct Sun News Network. It was a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the sale of the remaining English-language print assets of Sun Media to rival Postmedia. The sale included neither the Sun News Network, which subsequently closed when a buyer was not found, nor Quebecor's French-language papers ''Le Journal de Montréal'' and ''Le Journal de Québec''. The sale was approved by the federal Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, and closed on April 13. Canoe Sun Media merged with Postmedia rather than being maintained as a separate division. Quebecor had previously sold its community newspapers in Quebec to TC Transcontinental in June 2014, under a deal first announced in December 2013. History Sun Publishing was formed on February 4, 1978 through the amalgamation of Toronto Sun Holdings Ltd and Toronto Sun Publis ...
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Bob Ferguson (journalist)
Robert Ferguson (July 1, 1931November 23, 2014) was a Canadian sports journalist and writer. He began in journalism with ''The London Free Press'' from 1952 to 1964, and was colour commentator for baseball games broadcast on CFPL (AM). He also served as the official statistician of the Intercounty Baseball League from 1958 to 1966, and owned the London Majors, London Pontiacs in the same league during the 1963 and 1964 seasons. He later worked for the ''Ottawa Citizen'' from 1967 to 1996, and was the paper's first writer assigned to cover the Montreal Expos. He believed in giving angry athletes a second chance at a better quote to avoid making the player look bad, and was a board member for Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He wrote ''Who's Who in Canadian Sport'', a book of biographies for Canadian sports persons; first published in 1977, with subsequent volumes in 1985, 1999 and 2005. His career was recognized with induction into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame in 2009, as a builder ...
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Victoria Grace Blackburn
Victoria Grace Blackburn (17 April 1865 – 4 March 1928) was a Canadian journalist and author. Biography Blackburn was born on April 17, 1865 in Quebec City. In 1894, after studying at Hellmuth Ladies' College, Blackburn began writing for the ''London Free Press''. In 1890s she also worked as a teacher. The paper was published by her father, Josiah Blackburn, and, later, by her brother, Walter Josiah Blackburn. In 1900 she became the paper's literary and drama critic. Blackburn studied criticism in New York and spent some years in Europe with her sisters. In 1918 she returned to Canada and became managing editor of the ''London Free Press''. She stayed in that position for a decade and was an important figure among London's cultural elite. Beyond her journalism, Blackburn published dozens of poems, two plays and a novel. Bibliography * References External links Blackburnin SFU Digitized Collections, Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a p ...
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Newspaper Circulation
Print circulation is the average number of copies of a publication. The number of copies of a non-periodical publication (such as a book) are usually called print run. Circulation is not always the same as copies sold, often called paid circulation, since some issues are distributed without cost to the reader. Readership figures are usually higher than circulation figures because of the assumption that a typical copy is read by more than one person. Concept Print circulation is a good proxy measure of print readership and is thus one of the principal factors used to set print advertising rates (prices). In many countries, circulations are audited by independent bodies such as the Audit Bureau of Circulations to assure advertisers that a given newspaper does reach the number of people claimed by the publisher. There are international open access directories such as ''Mondo Times'', but these generally rely on numbers reported by newspapers themselves. World newspapers with th ...
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List Of Newspapers In Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo'' * Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – ''Bassano Times'' * Beaumont – ''Beaumont News'' * Beaverlodge – ''Beaverlodge Advertiser'' * Bow Island – ''Bow Island Commentator'' * Bow Valley – '' Bow Valley Crag & Canyon'', ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' * Bowden – ''The Voice of Bowden'' * Brooks, Alberta, Brooks – ''Brooks & County Chronicle'', ''Brooks Bulletin'' * Calmar, Alberta, Calmar – ''Calmar Community Voice'' * Camrose, Alberta, Camrose – ''Camrose Booster'' * Canmore, Alberta, Canmore – ''Rocky Mountain Outlook The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' is a weekly local newspaper based in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. The ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' is delivered across the Bow Valley in Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise, the Municipal District of Bighorn and the Sto ...'' * Cardston, Alberta, Cardsto ...
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Metroland Media
Metroland Media Group (also known as Community Brands) is a Canadian mass media publisher and distributor which primarily operates in Southern Ontario. A division of the publishing conglomerate Torstar Corporation, Metroland publishes more than 70 local community newspapers–including six dailies–and many magazines. Metroland has a substantial market presence in its geographic area, but has considerable competition from other large media and publishing organisations. In addition to printing most of its own publications, Metroland operates as a commercial printer of flyers and magazines. History Metroland is the publisher of six daily and more than 70 community newspapers in Southern Ontario. Metroland also publishes local news, classified and shopping websites, and operates nine printing operations. The company is a distributor of flyers and circulars. It produces specialty print products, magazines and newspaper inserts, which are geared toward specific market segments. Met ...
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Postmedia
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations. It is best known for being the owner of the ''National Post'' and the ''Financial Post''. The company is headquartered at Postmedia Place, located on Bloor Street of Toronto. The company's strategy has seen its publications invest greater resources in digital news gathering and distribution, including expanded websites and digital news apps for smartphones and tablets."Postmedia revamps Ottawa Citizen's digital service"


Woodstock Sentinel-Review
''The Woodstock Sentinel-Review'' is a local daily newspaper that serves Woodstock, Ontario and Oxford County, Ontario, Oxford County in the Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It's published four days a week, Tuesday to Friday, after the Monday print edition was ended November 19, 2018. The Sentinel-Review' is owned by the Postmedia Network corporation. The newspaper is printed at ''The Hamilton Spectator'', which prints several Postmedia Network newspapers, and is designed in Barrie, Ontario. The ''Sentinel-Review'' was formerly printed at The London Free Press for more than 10 years until their print production moved to Hamilton after Postmedia announced The London Free Press' printing press operations would be closed and outsourced to Hamilton. The ''Sentinel-Review''s last London print date was Oct. 6, 2016 and their first printing out of Hamilton was Oct. 10, 2016. Content for ''The Oxford Review'' is provided from the ''Sentinel-Review'' and is delivered by mail every Thu ...
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The Beacon Herald
''The Beacon Herald (Stratford Beacon-Herald)'' is a daily newspaper (Monday to Saturday) published in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. The paper serves the area of Perth County, Ontario. The paper was established in 1923 from the merger of two local papers, the ''Stratford Beacon Weekly'' (c.1855 and daily after 1887) and ''Stratford Weekly Herald'' (c.1863 and daily after 1887). The paper is the survivor of several other papers in Stratford: * ''Stratford Mirror'', 1920s to 1940s * ''Stratford Times'', 1964 to 1976 * ''Stratford Weekly News'', 1979 to 1980 The paper was owned by the Dingman family until it was acquired by Sun Media (Quebecor Media) in 2000 and, in turn, by Postmedia in 2015. See also *List of newspapers in Canada References Postmedia Network publications Stratford, Ontario 1923 establishments in Ontario Newspapers established in 1923 Daily newspapers published in Ontario {{Canada-newspaper-stub ...
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Simcoe Reformer
The ''Simcoe Reformer'' is a newspaper circulating in Norfolk County, Ontario and Haldimand County, Ontario, both in Canada. The ''Reformer'' is published weekdays. History In 1858, Dr William H. Oliver, who had written for and edited a number of periodicals in the early 1800s, established a weekly newspaper called ''The Erie News'' in Simcoe. After publishing for three years, the newspaper was sold to William Buckingham (publisher), William Buckingham in 1861, who renamed it ''The Norfolk Reformer''. Buckingham edited the paper for 18 months under the motto, "The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance". In 1922, the ''Norfolk Reformer'' and another newspaper, ''The Simcoe British Canadian'', were purchased by the Pearce Publishing Company, which amalgamated them to create ''The Simcoe Reformer''. Pearce increased the frequency of publication of the newspaper, publishing it twice a week by 1934 and three times a week by 1953. In 1960, the newspaper became an "evening daily newspape ...
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Sarnia Observer
The ''Observer'' has been serving Sarnia-Lambton since 1853 and publishes five times per week, Tuesday through Saturday. The offices of the ''Observer'' are in Sarnia. The paper is printed in London, Ontario, on presses owned by Postmedia, which also publishes the ''London Free Press'' and ''Windsor Star''. See also *List of newspapers in Canada This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo'' * Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – ''Bassano Times'' * Beaumont – ... References External links ''Sarnia Observer'' Mass media in Sarnia Postmedia Network publications Daily newspapers published in Ontario Publications established in 1853 1853 establishments in Canada {{Canada-newspaper-stub ...
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