The ''Cranbrook Daily Townsman'' is the local

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Cranbrook, British Columbia Cranbrook ( ) is a city in southeast British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of the Kootenay River at its confluence with the St. Mary's River. It is the largest urban centre in the region known as the East Kootenay. As of 2016, Cra ...

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. It is owned by Victoria-based Black Press, the largest publisher of

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s in

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. The ''Daily Townsman'' is the paper of record for Cranbrook. During the Covid-19 pandemic it publishes once a week, on Tuesday. Its Thursday product, the Kootenay News Advertiser, distributes to several outlying communities in the East Kootenay region. Originally a

, it has published daily since 1946. In 2016, it began publishing three times a week. Don Kendall, a former executive at Black Press, purchased the ''Daily Townsman'' and ''Kimberly Daily Bulletin'' in July 2010, as part of a larger deal that saw Glacier Media sell several of its British Columbia papers to Black. At the time, Kendall said Black "wasn't as interested in some titles – Cranbrook,

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, Nelson, and

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– but Glacier was only selling the papers as a block." Black did purchase the ''

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'' in 2010, and ended up closing them days later. It already owned competing weeklies in both Nelson and Prince Rupert. Although it also owns a competing weekly in Cranbrook, the ''Kootenay Advertiser'', Black purchased the ''Daily Townsman'' and ''Daily Bulletin'' from Kendall a year later, promising that both the weekly and the dailies "will continue to run under their current business plan and we anticipate few changes." All of Black's community newspapers in the East Kootenay region are printed on the ''Daily Townsmans presses.

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''Cranbrook Daily Townsman''
– Official website. The website has now changed to https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/ Mass media in Cranbrook, British Columbia Publications established in the 1920s Daily newspapers published in British Columbia Publications with year of establishment missing {{Canada-newspaper-stub

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