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{{Infobox Company
{{Infobox company
|name = Great West Newspapers L.P.
| name = Great West Media L.P.
|company_logo =
| logo =
|traded_as =
| traded_as =
|type = [[Private company|Private]]
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
|foundation = 1995
| foundation = 1995
|location = 340 Carleton Drive, [[St. Albert, Alberta]] T8N 7L3, [[Canada]]
| location = 340 Carleton Drive<br />[[St. Albert, Alberta]]<br />T8N 7L3
|locations =
| locations =
|key_people = Duff Jamison, [[President]]/[[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]]<br/>Paul Rockley, [[Vice president|Executive VP]]
| key_people = Duff Jamison, [[President (corporate title)|President]] and [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]]<br/>Brian Bachynski, [[Vice president|Executive VP]]
|area_served = [[Alberta]]
| area_served = [[Alberta]]
|industry = [[Newspaper]]s
| industry = [[Mass media]]
|products = 24 [[weekly newspaper]]s
| products = 20 weekly newspapers and websites
|services =
| services =
|revenue =
| revenue =
|operating_income =
| operating_income =
|net_income =
| net_income =
|num_employees =
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|parent = [[Glacier Media]], 50%<br/>Jamison Newspapers, 50%
| parent = [[Glacier Media]], 50%<br/>Jamison Newspapers, 50%
|divisions =
| divisions =
|subsid = Mountain View Publishing<br/>Rocky View Publishing
| subsid = Mountain View Publishing<br/>
| homepage = [http://www.greatwest.ca www.greatwest.ca]
|slogan =
|homepage = [http://www.greatwest.ca www.greatwest.ca]
| footnotes = <ref name="About">{{cite web|title=About: Great West|url=http://www.greatwest.ca/about|work=GreatWest.ca|accessdate=June 20, 2024}}</ref>
|footnotes = <ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About Us: Great West |url=http://www.greatwest.ca/section/gwn0201|work=GreatWest.ca|accessdate=March 28, 2012}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=About Us: Leadership|url=http://www.greatwest.ca/section/gwn0202|work=GreatWest.ca|accessdate=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
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'''Great West Newspapers Limited Partnership''' is a Canadian publisher of [[weekly newspaper]]s in the province of [[Alberta]]. It is headquartered in [[St. Albert, Alberta]].
'''Great West Media Limited Partnership''' is a Canadian publisher of [[weekly newspaper]]s in the province of [[Alberta]]. It is headquartered in [[St. Albert, Alberta]].


The company is jointly owned by [[Glacier Media]], a [[Vancouver]]-based publisher, and the local family business '''Jamison Newspapers''', which operates Great West's properties.
The company is jointly owned by [[Glacier Media]], a [[Vancouver]]-based publisher, and the local family business '''Jamison Newspapers''', which operates Great West's properties.
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Great West swapped newspapers with [[Black Press]] in 2010, gaining the ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' in [[Canmore, Alberta]], and unloading the ''Red Deer Express'', a weekly that competed with Black's daily ''[[Red Deer Advocate]]''. The swap was part of a larger deal that saw Glacier sell many of its [[British Columbia]] newspapers to Black.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/business/provincial_biz/Black_Press_purchases_Red_Deer_Express_newspaper_97526709.html?mobile=true|title=Black Press Buys Red Deer Express Newspaper|date=June 30, 2010|newspaper=Red Deer Advocate|location=Red Deer, Alta.|accessdate=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
Great West swapped newspapers with [[Black Press]] in 2010, gaining the ''[[Rocky Mountain Outlook]]'' in [[Canmore, Alberta]], and unloading the ''Red Deer Express'', a weekly that competed with Black's daily ''[[Red Deer Advocate]]''. The swap was part of a larger deal that saw Glacier sell many of its [[British Columbia]] newspapers to Black.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/business/provincial_biz/Black_Press_purchases_Red_Deer_Express_newspaper_97526709.html?mobile=true|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201013411/http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/business/provincial_biz/Black_Press_purchases_Red_Deer_Express_newspaper_97526709.html?mobile=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2013|title=Black Press Buys Red Deer Express Newspaper|date=June 30, 2010|newspaper=Red Deer Advocate|location=Red Deer, Alta.|accessdate=March 28, 2012}}</ref>


Glacier continued to operate a competing award-winning weekly in St. Albert, the ''Saint City News'', until 2010, when the paper was sold to Great West. Great West closed the ''Saint City News'' in 2011, citing a decline in advertising revenue.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/20110702/SAG0801/307029975/saint-city-news-shuts-down|title=Saint City News Shuts Down|date=July 2, 2011|accessdate=March 28, 2012|first=Cory|last=Hare|newspaper=St. Albert Gazette }}</ref>
Glacier continued to operate a competing award-winning weekly in St. Albert, the ''Saint City News'', until 2010, when the paper was sold to Great West. Great West closed the ''Saint City News'' in 2011, citing a decline in advertising revenue.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/20110702/SAG0801/307029975/saint-city-news-shuts-down|title=Saint City News Shuts Down|date=July 2, 2011|accessdate=March 28, 2012|first=Cory|last=Hare|newspaper=St. Albert Gazette}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


== Properties ==
== Properties ==
Great West newspapers, all of which are weeklies based in [[Alberta]], are:<ref>{{cite web |title=Great West Newspapers: Publications|url=http://www.greatwest.ca/section/gwn0301 |work=GreatWest.ca|accessdate=March 13, 2012}}</ref>
Great West newspapers, all of which are weeklies based in [[Alberta]], are:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Local News Publications |url=https://greatwest.ca/publications/ |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=Great West Media |language=en-US}}</ref>


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* ''Airdrie City View''
* ''Airdrie City View''
* ''Alberta Prime Times''
* ''Athabasca Advocate''
* ''Athabasca Advocate''
* ''Barrhead Leader''
* ''Barrhead Leader''
* ''Bonnyville Nouvelle''
* ''Bonnyville Nouvelle''
* ''Calgary Senior''
* ''Carstairs Courier''
* ''Cochrane Eagle''
* ''Cochrane Eagle''
* ''Didsbury Review''
* ''Edmonton Senior''
* ''Edmonton Woman Magazine''
* ''Elk Point Review''
* ''Elk Point Review''
* ''Fast Forward Weekly''
* ''Innisfail Province''
* ''Innisfail Province''
* ''Jasper Fitzhugh''
* ''Lac La Biche Post''
* ''Lac La Biche Post''
* ''Mountain View Albertan''
* ''Okotoks Western Wheel''
* ''Okotoks Western Wheel''
* ''Olds Albertan''
* ''[[Rocky Mountain Outlook]]''
* ''Rocky Mountain Outlook''
* ''Rocky View Weekly''
* ''Rocky View Weekly''
* ''[[St. Albert Gazette]]''
* ''[[St. Albert Gazette]]''
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* ''Sundre Round Up''
* ''Sundre Round Up''
* ''Westlock News''
* ''Westlock News''
{{colend}}
{{div col end}}
Great West Media also owns ''51 Degrees North'' magazine, a digital and print publication focused on the people of the Bow Valley.

The company also owns several regional publications and an interest in Glacier Media's agricultural publications.
The company also owns several regional publications and an interest in Glacier Media's agricultural publications.



==See also==
==See also==
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* [http://www.greatwest.ca/ Great West Newspapers]
* [http://www.greatwest.ca/ Great West Newspapers]


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[[Category:Newspaper companies of Canada]]
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[[Category:Companies based in Alberta]]
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[[Category:Great West Newspapers]]

Latest revision as of 00:01, 1 July 2024

Great West Media L.P.
Company typePrivate
IndustryMass media
Founded1995
Headquarters340 Carleton Drive
St. Albert, Alberta
T8N 7L3
Area served
Alberta
Key people
Duff Jamison, President and CEO
Brian Bachynski, Executive VP
Products20 weekly newspapers and websites
ParentGlacier Media, 50%
Jamison Newspapers, 50%
SubsidiariesMountain View Publishing
Websitewww.greatwest.ca
Footnotes / references
[1]

Great West Media Limited Partnership is a Canadian publisher of weekly newspapers in the province of Alberta. It is headquartered in St. Albert, Alberta.

The company is jointly owned by Glacier Media, a Vancouver-based publisher, and the local family business Jamison Newspapers, which operates Great West's properties.

History

[edit]

Great West was founded in 1995 as a partnership between Southam Inc. and the Jamison family, which had owned the St. Albert Gazette since 1966 (the newspaper itself had been founded in 1961). The Jamisons had run the paper as a family business but prided themselves on professional journalism; the Gazette staff produced a daily newspaper for the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.[2]

The Gazette had first partnered with Southam in 1988, when the Jamisons began printing suburban editions of Neighbours, a publication of the Southam-owned Edmonton Journal, as well as some colour comics and television inserts for the Journal and Calgary Herald.[3]

Over the next 15 years, Great West grew its holdings to 20 weekly newspapers across the province. In 1997, Southam was purchased by Hollinger Inc. In 2005, Jamison Newspapers bought out its partner but sold a 50% stake in Great West to Glacier Media. The company built a $25 million office and printing plant in Campbell Business Park. In August, 2012, the company announced that it struck a deal with Postmedia to print the Edmonton Journal. The Journal will begin printing at Great West's facility in the late spring of 2013. [3]

Great West swapped newspapers with Black Press in 2010, gaining the Rocky Mountain Outlook in Canmore, Alberta, and unloading the Red Deer Express, a weekly that competed with Black's daily Red Deer Advocate. The swap was part of a larger deal that saw Glacier sell many of its British Columbia newspapers to Black.[4]

Glacier continued to operate a competing award-winning weekly in St. Albert, the Saint City News, until 2010, when the paper was sold to Great West. Great West closed the Saint City News in 2011, citing a decline in advertising revenue.[5]

Properties

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Great West newspapers, all of which are weeklies based in Alberta, are:[6]

  • Airdrie City View
  • Alberta Prime Times
  • Athabasca Advocate
  • Barrhead Leader
  • Bonnyville Nouvelle
  • Cochrane Eagle
  • Elk Point Review
  • Innisfail Province
  • Jasper Fitzhugh
  • Lac La Biche Post
  • Mountain View Albertan
  • Okotoks Western Wheel
  • Rocky Mountain Outlook
  • Rocky View Weekly
  • St. Albert Gazette
  • St. Paul Journal
  • Sundre Round Up
  • Westlock News

Great West Media also owns 51 Degrees North magazine, a digital and print publication focused on the people of the Bow Valley.

The company also owns several regional publications and an interest in Glacier Media's agricultural publications.


See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ "About: Great West". GreatWest.ca. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  2. ^ "The Family That Works Together Produces a Newspaper". St. Albert Gazette. October 12, 2011. p. 4B. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "The Gazette Through the Ages". St. Albert Gazette. October 12, 2011. p. 14B. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  4. ^ "Black Press Buys Red Deer Express Newspaper". Red Deer Advocate. Red Deer, Alta. June 30, 2010. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  5. ^ Hare, Cory (July 2, 2011). "Saint City News Shuts Down". St. Albert Gazette. Retrieved March 28, 2012.[permanent dead link‍]
  6. ^ "Local News Publications". Great West Media. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
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