''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional

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published in Sudbury,

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. It is owned by the media company,

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by circulation.

History

The ''Sudbury Star'' began as a daily in January 1909 as the ''Northern Daily Star'',C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital''.

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, 1993. . in competition with the city's established daily ''Sudbury Journal'', but it was in immediate financial trouble and folded within just six months. Staff took over ownership of the struggling newspaper, led by foreman William Edge Mason, who then found 10 prominent investors to provide financial backing to the paper."Sudbury Star Publisher William E. Mason Dead". ''

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'', June 23, 1948. W.E. Mason Equipment was created to take over management of the paper, and by

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the paper was flourishing and the ''Sudbury Journal'' was out of business. In 1922 Mason acquired the ''

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'', April 6, 1963. In 1935, Mason launched the city's first commercial radio station, CKSO. In 1948, Mason died and ownership of the paper was taken over by his W.E. Mason Estate. The ''Nugget'' was almost immediately sold in an

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, but the ''Sudbury Star'' remained under the ownership of Mason's estate until 1950, when J. R. Meakes, Mason's successor as publisher and general manager, bought the paper with co-investors George Miller,

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and Bill Plaunt. The same investment group launched CKSO-TV, the city's first television station and the first television station in Canada not owned by the

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, in 1953. In 1955 the paper was acquired by

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."Sudbury publisher, 60, later Chamber head". ''

'', February 12, 1977. Meakes remained as publisher and general manager until his retirement in 1975. In the early 1960s, the city saw a "newspaper war" between two startup weekly newspapers, the ''Sudbury Sun'' and the ''Star''-owned ''Sudbury Scene''. The ''Sun'', a publication of Northland Publishers, was out of business by 1962, and filed a competition lawsuit against the ''Scene'', alleging that the ''Scene'' had deliberately undercut the ''Suns advertising rates to protect Thomson's monopoly on English-language periodical publication in the city. The federal trade practices commission ruled in Thomson's favour. The paper was sold to

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in 1996, to

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in 2001, and to Sun Media in 2007. In 2015 Postmedia Network acquired Sun Media. In October 2013 the paper moved from its longtime home at 33 MacKenzie Street in Sudbury to new offices at 128 Pine Street."Sudbury Star on the move to 128 Pine St."
''Sudbury Star'', October 24, 2013. The current managing editor of the ''Sudbury Star'' is Don MacDonald, who assumed the role in 2014.

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