Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian

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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 The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...

'' and the ''

Financial Post The ''Financial Post'' was an English Canadian business newspaper, which published from 1907 to 1998. In 1998, the publication was folded into the new ''National Post'',"Black says Post to merge with new paper". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 23, ...

''. The company is headquartered at Postmedia Place, located on

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of Toronto. The company's strategy has seen its publications invest greater resources in digital news gathering and distribution, including expanded

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s and digital news apps for smartphones and tablets."Postmedia revamps Ottawa Citizen's digital service"

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, May 20, 2014. This began with a revamp and redesign of the ''

Ottawa Citizen The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris, it was renamed the ''Citizen'' in 1851. The new ...

'', which debuted in 2014. Postmedia is currently 66% owned by American media conglomerate Chatham Asset Management.

History

The ownership group was assembled by ''

'' CEO Paul Godfrey in 2010 to bid for the chain of newspapers being sold by the financially troubled Asper family's Canwest (the company's broadcasting assets were sold separately to Shaw Communications). Godfrey secured financial backing from a U.S.

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, the Manhattan-based hedge fund

GoldenTree Asset Management GoldenTree Asset Management is an American asset management firm that was founded in 2000. The firm has its headquarters in New York City and offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dublin, London, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and West Palm Beach. ...

—which owns 35 per cent—as well as IJNR Investment Trust, Nyppex and other investors. The group completed a $1.1 billion transaction to acquire the chain from Canwest on July 13, 2010. On October 6, 2014, Postmedia's CEO Godfrey announced a deal to acquire the English-language operations of Sun Media."Postmedia buys 175-paper Sun Media for $316m"
''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...

'', October 6, 2014. The purchase received regulatory approval from the federal Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, even though the company manages competitive papers in several Canadian cities; while the Sun Media chain owns numerous other papers, four of its five ''Sun''-branded tabloids operate in markets where Postmedia already publishes a broadsheet competitor. Board chair Rod Phillips has cited the

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market, in which the two main daily newspapers, the ''

Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published s ...

'' and ''

The Province ''The Province'' is a daily newspaper published in tabloid format in British Columbia by Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, alongside the '' Vancouver Sun'' broadsheet newspaper. Together, they are British Columbia's on ...

'', have had common ownership for over 30 years, as evidence that the deal would not be anticompetitive. The purchase did not include Sun Media's now-defunct

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. The acquisition was approved by the Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, and closed on April 13.

Margo Goodhand Margo Goodhand is a Canadian journalist who served as the first female editor of the ''Winnipeg Free Press The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Wi ...

, a former '' Edmonton Journal editor-in-chief,'' wrote in a 2016

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article that Postmedia executives were behind outsourcing of Postmedia content to produce “''Regina Leader-Post'' sports pages, Arts fronts for the ''Montreal Gazette'', editorial pages for the ''Vancouver Sun''” to a site within an office in Canada. In 2016, the company sought to restructure its compensation plans and reduce spending by as much as 20%, after reporting a net loss of $99.4 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, in the fourth-quarter ended Aug 31, compared with a $54.1 million net loss, or 19 cents per diluted share, in the same period a year earlier. This resulted in 90 newsroom staff losing their jobs. On November 27, 2017, Postmedia and

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announced a transaction in which Postmedia will sell seven dailies, eight community papers, and the Toronto and Vancouver '' 24 Hours'' to Torstar, in exchange for 22 community papers and the Ottawa and Winnipeg versions of ''Metro''. Except for the '' Exeter Times-Advocate'', '' St. Catharines Standard'', ''

Niagara Falls Review The ''Niagara Falls Review'' is a daily newspaper distributed in Niagara Falls and also serving the nearby towns of Fort Erie and Niagara-on-the-Lake area in Ontario, Canada. The paper is owned by Metroland Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar. ...

'', ''

Peterborough Examiner ''The Peterborough Examiner'' is a newspaper that services Peterborough, Ontario and area. The paper started circulation in 1847, and is currently owned by Torstar and operated by its Metroland division. Between 1942 and 1955, it was edited by Can ...

'', and '' Welland Tribune'', all acquired papers will be closed. In March 2018, the Competition Bureau issued a court filing accusing the two companies of structuring the deal with no-compete clauses in an effort to reduce competition in the newspaper industry, in violation of the '' Competition Act''. On June 26, 2018, Canadian Press reported that, by the end of August, Postmedia will be closing the ''

Camrose Canadian The ''Camrose Canadian'' was a local news publication for the Camrose, Alberta area. Founded in 1908, the paper was one of many Alberta publications owned by Postmedia Network. On June 26, 2018, Postmedia announced that the newspaper would cease ...

'' in

Camrose, Alberta Camrose ( ) is a city in central Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by Camrose County. Located along Highway 13 it had its beginnings as a railroad hub. History The area around Camrose was first settled by Europeans around 1900. At that time t ...

, '' Strathmore Standard'' in

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, '' Kapuskasing Northern Times'' in Kapuskasing, Ontario, '' Ingersoll Times'' in

Ingersoll, Ontario Ingersoll is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The nearest cities are Woodstock to the east and London to the west. Ingersoll is situated north of and along Highway 401. Oxford County Road 119 (former ...

, '' Norwich Gazette'' in Norwich, Ontario and ''

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'' in Petrolia, Ontario. It will also cease printing the '' Portage Daily Graphic'' in

Portage La Prairie, Manitoba Portage la Prairie () is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2016, the population was 13,304 and the land area of the city was . Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Hi ...

, the '' Northern News'' in

Kirkland Lake, Ontario Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The 2016 population, according to Statistics Canada, was 7,981. The community name was based on a nearby lake which in turn was named after Winnifre ...

, and ''

Pembroke Daily Observer The ''Pembroke Daily Observer'' is a digital newspaper serving the city of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, and the nearby town of Petawawa. It was founded in 1855 and is now owned by Postmedia. As a broadsheet daily newspaper, it had a circulation of a ...

'' in Pembroke, Ontario while maintaining a digital presence for the three publications. As well, the '' High River Times'' in High River, Alberta will go from being published twice a week to once a week. On November 27, 2018, The Competition Bureau applied for a court evaluation contesting Postmedia's claims of solicitor-client privilege, for records seized by the bureau during raids at the company's offices. In June 2019, Kevin Libin, the ''National Post'' and ''Financial Post comments'' editor and editorials editor and a founding editor of '' Western Standard,'' was assigned “executive editor of Postmedia politics". The role focuses on coverage for federal politics in the ''Post.'' In addition, it focuses on coverage of federal and provincial politics within all of the dailies owned by Postmedia. In November 2019, Postmedia announced that 66% of its shares were now owned by Chatham Asset Management, an American media conglomerate which owns American Media, Inc., and is known for its close ties to the Republican party. In a 2020 article by The New York Times, it was reported that journalists had attested that since Chatham Asset Management had taken over, Postmedia had centralized operations and cut staff so that its 106 newspapers are basically clones of one another. On February 17, 2022, Postmedia announced a definitive agreement to acquire Brunswick News Inc. (BNI). As well as several New Brunswick daily and weekly newspapers and "digital properties", BNI's assets included a parcel delivery business and "proprietary distribution software".

Operating Branch

Postmedia News

Postmedia News is the "news" branch of Postmedia Network, providing similar content to all of its subsidiary news outlets and websites. It is identified as a source on all of its subsidiary newspapers. The news agency provides news, sports, entertainment, photography, financial and feature information and data to Postmedia Network's Canadian newspapers, online properties and a number of third party clients in Canada and the United States.

Controversies

The creation of the Postmedia Network effectively concentrates more than 90 percent of all Canadian dailies and weeklies in one company, a fact lamented by J-Source, a Canadian media watchdog, in a 2015 online article. In 2016, Godfrey took a $900,000 bonus during a time that Postmedia laid off staff company-wide. In October 2018, it was reported that CEO Andrew MacLeod had declared the company "insufficiently conservative." That resulted in Kevin Libin, who had played an active role in defeating a union drive at the paper earlier that year, taking charge of all political reporting and analysis in Postmedia newspapers to ensure the newspapers became more "reliably conservative."

Assets

Advertising

* The Flyer Force * Go!Local

Publishing

Broadsheet dailies and weeklies

*''

'' *''

'' (administratively part of the National Post) *''

Belleville Intelligencer ''The Intelligencer'' (locally nicknamed the ''Intell'') is the daily (except on Sundays and certain holidays) newspaper of Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The paper is regarded mainly as a local paper, stressing local issues over issues of more na ...

'' *''

Brantford Expositor The ''Brantford Expositor'' is an English language newspaper based in Brantford, Ontario and owned by Postmedia. It provides the readers with coverage of local news, sports and events to the community as well as coverage of provincial, national a ...

'' *'' Calgary Herald'' *'' Cornwall Standard Freeholder'' *'' Edmonton Journal'' *'' Kenora Daily Miner and News'' *''

Kingston Whig-Standard ''The Kingston Whig-Standard'' is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is published five days a week, from Tuesday to Saturday. It publishes a mix of community, national and international news and is currently owned by Postmedia. It has ...

'' *'' London Free Press'' *''

Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...

'' *''

North Bay Nugget The ''North Bay Nugget'' is a newspaper published in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The paper is currently owned by Postmedia. The paper was launched in 1907 as the ''Cobalt Nugget'', during the silver boom at Cobalt, Ontario. It was acquired by b ...

'' *''

Regina Leader-Post The ''Regina Leader-Post'' is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network. Founding The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, ...

'' *''

The StarPhoenix ''The StarPhoenix'' is a daily newspaper that serves Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and is a part of Postmedia Network. The ''StarPhoenix'' puts out six editions each week and publishes one weekly, ''Bridges''. It is also part of the canada.com ...

'' (

Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as th ...

) *''

Sault Star ''The Sault Star'' is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It is owned by Postmedia. In 2015, the newspaper had a daily paid circulation of 7,577 weekdays and 7,763 on Saturdays. Its total circulation includi ...

'' *'' Sudbury Star'' *'' Timmins Daily Press'' *''

The Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published si ...

'' (not related to the tabloid ''

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'' newspapers also owned by Postmedia) *''

Windsor Star The ''Windsor Star'' is a daily newspaper based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Postmedia Network, it is published Tuesdays through Saturdays. History The paper began as the weekly ''Windsor Record'' in 1888, changing its name to the ''Bor ...

Tabloid dailies

*''

Calgary Sun The ''Calgary Sun'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is owned by Postmedia. First published in 1980, the tabloid-format daily replaced the long-running tabloid-size newspaper ''The Albertan'' soon after it was ...

'' *''

Edmonton Sun The ''Edmonton Sun'' is a daily newspaper and news website published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is owned by Postmedia following its 2015 acquisition of Sun Media from Quebecor. It began publishing Sunday April 2, 1978 and shares many c ...

'' *'' Ottawa Sun'' *''

'' (

) *''

Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid format, tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Pos ...

'' *''

Winnipeg Sun The ''Winnipeg Sun'' is a daily tabloid newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is owned by Postmedia following its acquisition of Sun Media, and shares many characteristics typical of Sun tabloids, including an emphasis on local news st ...

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newspapers

Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller communities across Canada, including: *'' Airdrie Echo'' (tabloid) *'' Bow Valley Crag & Canyon'' (tabloid) *''

Brockville Recorder and Times Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...

'' (broadsheet) *''

Chatham This Week ''Chatham This Week'' is a community newspaper serving the city of Chatham, Ontario with a controlled circulation to approximately 19,400 homes. History A tabloid, ''Chatham This Week'' was launched in February 1991. Dean Mulharrem has been the ...

'' (tabloid) *'' Clinton News-Record'' (tabloid) *'' Cochrane Times (Alberta)'' (tabloid) *'' Cochrane Times-Post'' (tabloid) *'' Cold Lake Sun'' (tabloid) *''

Drayton Valley Western Review The ''Drayton Valley Western Review'' is a weekly newspaper serving the Drayton Valley, Alberta area in Canada. First published in 1965 succeeding an earlier short lived paper Drayton Valley Banner. See also *List of newspapers in Canada Referenc ...

'' (tabloid) *'' Edson Leader'' (tabloid) *''

Elliot Lake Standard The ''Elliot Lake Standard'' is a weekly newspaper, published in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Owned by Postmedia, the paper publishes each Thursday and serves much of the North Shore region, including Iron Bridge, Blind River, Spanish and Sables-Span ...

'' (tabloid) *''

Fort McMurray Today The ''Fort McMurray Today'' is a publication based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. It is considered the paper of record for Fort McMurray and covers a number of topics affecting the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. The daily newspaper was ...

'' (tabloid) *''

Fort Saskatchewan Record The ''Fort Saskatchewan Record'' is a once-weekly (Thursdays) free newspaper in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, a city on the northeast side of the Edmonton metropolitan area. It is the oldest paper in the city. History The paper bega ...

'' (tabloid) *'' Goderich Signal-Star'' (tabloid) *''

Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune The ''Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune'', or the ''Daily Herald-Tribune'', is an online news website published in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. The media outlet is owned by Postmedia Network, and operated by its Sun Media Division, which ...

'' (tabloid) *''

Hanna Herald Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a fa ...

'' (tabloid) *'' High River Times'' (tabloid) *'' Hinton Parklander'' (tabloid) *'' Kincardine News'' (tabloid) *'' Kingston This Week'' (tabloid) *'' Lakeshore Advance'' ( Grand Bend; tabloid) *'' Lloydminster Meridian Booster'' (tabloid) ''sold to Lloydminster Source Ltd'' *'' Mid-North Monitor'' ( Espanola; tabloid) *'' Mayerthorpe Freelancer'' (tabloid) *'' Nanton News'' (tabloid) *'' Owen Sound Sun Times'' (broadsheet) *'' Peace River Record-Gazette'' (broadsheet) *'' Pincher Creek Echo'' (tabloid) *'' Red River Valley Echo'' (tabloid) closed 2020 *'' Sherwood Park News'' (tabloid) *''

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 o ...

'' (tabloid) *'' St. Thomas Times-Journal'' (tabloid) *'' Stratford Beacon Herald'' (broadsheet) *'' Vulcan Advocate'' (tabloid) *'' Vermilion Standard'' (tabloid) *'' Whitecourt Star'' (tabloid) *''

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'' (tabloid) *''

Woodstock Sentinel-Review ''The Woodstock Sentinel-Review'' is a local daily newspaper that serves Woodstock, Ontario and Oxford County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It's published four days a week, Tuesday to Friday, after the Monday print edition was ended Nove ...

'' (broadsheet)

Former assets

* '' 24 Hours'' (

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

) ''sold to Torstar and closed, 2017'' *''

Barrie Examiner The ''Barrie Examiner'' was a daily newspaper published in Barrie, Ontario from 1864 to 2017. History The ''Examiner'' was founded in 1864. Publisher William Manley Nicholson launched the paper as an alternate to the ''Northern Advance'', whic ...

'' (sold to Torstar and closed, 2017) *'' Bradford Times'' (tabloid) ''sold to Torstar and closed, 2017'' *''

'' (tabloid), closing 2018 *'' Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin'' ''sold to Torstar and closed, 2017'' *''

'' (broadsheet) ''sold to Torstar, 2017'' *''Norwich Gazette'', closing 2018 *'' Orillia Packet & Times'' (broadsheet) ''sold to Torstar and closed, 2017'' *''

'' (broadsheet), ceasing print edition 2018 *''

'' (broadsheet) ''sold to Torstar, 2017'' *'' St. Catharines Standard'' (broadsheet) ''sold to Torstar in 2017'' *'' Strathmore Standard'' (tabloid), closing 2018

Magazines

*''Financial Post Business'' *''Living Windsor'' *''Muskoka Magazine'' *''Kingston Life Magazine'' *''Interiors Magazine'' *''Backpack Magazine'' *''Cannabis Post'' *''Muskoka Visitor Guide'' *''Ontario Farmer Magazines'' (Hog, Beef, Dairy) *'' Swerve'' *''TVtimes''

Online

* Canada.com * Infomart.com * celebrating.com * connecting.com * driving.ca * househunting.ca * remembering.ca * shoplocal.ca * SwarmJam.com In addition, Postmedia Network owns all websites associated with all properties listed on this page either wholly or in partnership.

Software

* QuickTrac * QuickWire

References

External links

*
Canada.com web portal
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Postmedia News

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