''The Brandon Sun'' is a Monday through Saturday
newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, 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 p ...
printed in
Brandon, Manitoba. It is the primary
newspaper of record for
western Manitoba
The Westman Region (also known as Western Manitoba or simply Westman) is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba located in the southwestern corner of the province.
Brandon is the largest urban centre in the Westman R ...
and includes substantial political, crime, business and sports news. ''The Brandon Sun'' also publishes a weekly Westman This Week edition featuring local columns and events listings that is distributed free to the entire city.
It was founded by Will White, with the first edition being printed on January 19, 1882. After some time under a board of directors, J.B. Whitehead purchased the majority of shares in 1903, and took full control in 1911. He ran the paper until 1937 when his son Ernest C. Whitehead took it over. The Whitehead family controlled ''The Brandon Sun'' until 1987, when it was sold to Thomson Newspapers,
who owned it until 2001.
The paper is currently owned by FP Canadian Newspapers, which also owns and operates the ''
Winnipeg Free Press
The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as ...
''. Alumni of the ''Sun'' include
Henry Champ
Stephen Henry Champ (12 July 1937 – 23 September 2012) was a veteran Canadian broadcast journalist, working for CTV News, NBC News and CBC News.
Champ was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and studied arts at Brandon University in 1957 and 1958 (h ...
,
Haroon Siddiqui
Haroon Siddiqui, is an Indo-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor.
Early life and career
Siddiqui continued as a columnist at the Star until 2015. His farewell column of 1 April 2015 marked his retirement from journali ...
,
Charles Gordon and
Lubor J. Zink.
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
''Brandon Sun''
Daily newspapers published in Manitoba
Mass media in Brandon, Manitoba
Publications established in 1882
1882 establishments in Manitoba
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