''The Sudbury Star'' is a Canadian daily regional
newspaper
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published in
Sudbury,
Ontario
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. It is owned by the media company,
Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in
Northeastern Ontario 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''. ]Dundurn Press
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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". '']The Globe and Mail
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'', June 23, 1948. W.E. Mason Equipment was created to take over management of the paper,[ and by ]World War I
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the paper was flourishing and the ''Sudbury Journal'' was out of business.[ In 1922 Mason acquired the '' North Bay Nugget'' in North Bay.]["Harry S. Browning: Printer Joined Cobalt Rush, Founded Paper". '']The Globe and Mail
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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 employee buyout, 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, Jim Cooper 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 ]Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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, in 1953.[
In 1955 the paper was acquired by Thomson Newspapers.]["Sudbury publisher, 60, later Chamber head". '']The Globe and Mail
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'', 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.Postmedia Network
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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. In 2020, the paper moved again, to an office building on Regent Street in the Lily Creek neighbourhood.
The current managing editor of the ''Sudbury Star'' is Don MacDonald, who assumed the role in 2014.
Notable staff
* David Griffin, journalist, Olympic athlete, and Royal Canadian Air Force officer
* Don Scott, author and journalist
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
* Bashaw – ''Bashaw Star''
* Bassano – ''Bassano Times''
* Beaumont – ''Beaumont News''
* Beaverlodg ...
References
External links
''Sudbury Star''
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Newspapers published in Greater Sudbury
Newspapers established in 1909
Postmedia Network publications
Daily newspapers published in Ontario
1909 establishments in Ontario