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{{short description|Daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada}} |
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| name = Calgary Herald |
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| type = Daily [[newspaper]] |
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| type = [[Daily newspaper]] |
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| format = [[Broadsheet]] |
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| owners = [[Postmedia Network]] |
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| publisher = Guy Huntingford |
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| editor = Lorne Motley |
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| headquarters = 215 16th Street SE, [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]] |
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| circulation = 107,954 weekdays<br /> 101,725 Saturdays |
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| headquarters = 215 16th Street SE, [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]] |
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| circulation_date = 2015 |
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| circulation = 123,722 daily<br />118,568 Saturday<br/>113,815 Sunday in 2011<ref name="ecirc">[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] [http://www.accessabc.com/products/freereports.htm e-Circ data] for the six months ending September 30, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2012.</ref> |
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| circulation_ref = <ref name="Circulation 2015">{{cite web|url=https://nmc-mic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015-Daily-Newspaper-Circulation-Report-by-Title-SPREADSHEET_FINAL.xlsx|title=2015 Daily Newspaper Circulation Spreadsheet (Excel)|work=News Media Canada|access-date=16 December 2017}} Numbers are based on the total circulation (print plus digital editions).</ref> |
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|website = [http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/index.html www.calgaryherald.com] |
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| sister newspapers = ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'' |
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| ISSN = 0828-1815 |
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| eISSN = 1197-2823 <!-- this ISSN is actually for the Overseas ed., and there seems to be no separate electronic format ISSN --> |
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| website = {{URL|www.calgaryherald.com|calgaryherald.com}} |
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[[File:Calgary Herald.svg|thumb|Former logo]] |
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The '''''Calgary Herald''''' is a [[Canadian]] daily newspaper published in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], [[Canada]]. The paper was first published in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser''. The newspaper is currently owned by the [[Postmedia Network]]. |
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The '''''Calgary Herald''''' is a daily newspaper published in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada. Publication began in 1883 as '''''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser'''''. It is owned by the [[Postmedia Network]]. |
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==History== |
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[[File:Alexander Grant MacKay cartoon.jpg|thumb|left|Political |
[[File:Alexander Grant MacKay cartoon.jpg|thumb|left|[[Political cartoon]] of [[Alexander Grant MacKay]] moving from Ontario to Alberta, ''Calgary Herald'', 26 May 1912]] |
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''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the [[Bow River|Bow]] and [[Elbow River|Elbow]] by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler."<ref name="Herald_History">{{citation |author=Diane Howard |title =Bob Edwards|editor=Wishart, David J.|editor1-link=David J. Wishart |series=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains|location=Lincoln |publisher=University of Nebraska Press|date=2004}}</ref>{{rp|507–508}}<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.ca">{{cite encyclopedia|url = https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/calgary-herald/|title=Calgary Herald|first=Bob|last=Bergen|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|publisher=[[Historica Canada]]|access-date=19 August 2019}}</ref> It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary.<ref name="Herald_History" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Tom|title=Cowtown: an album of early Calgary|year=1975|publisher=City of Calgary Electric System, McClelland and Stewart West|location=Calgary|isbn=0-7712-1012-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/cowtownalbumofea0000ward/page/120 120]|url=https://archive.org/details/cowtownalbumofea0000ward/page/120|access-date=3 October 2014|url-access=registration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103131359/https://archive.org/details/cowtownalbumofea0000ward/page/120|archive-date=3 January 2020}}</ref> A year's subscription cost $3.<ref name="Herald_History" />{{rp|507–508}} |
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When [[Hugh Cayley|Hugh St. Quentin Cayley]] became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack.<ref name="Herald_History" />{{rp|507–508}} Cayley quickly became partner and editor. |
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In January 1908, the [[Southam Newspaper Group|Southam Company]] purchased a majority interest.<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.com"/> From February 1890 to August 1893 and December 1894 to September 1895, the weekly paper appeared as the Wednesday issue of the daily paper. Publication of the daily paper was suspended between 21 September 1893 and 13 December 1894. It was not until fall 1983 that it was published seven days a week.<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.com"/> The Calgary Daily Herald's name was changed to the Calgary Herald in February 1939, and continued to be published as an afternoon paper until April 1985. Since then it has been delivered in the mornings. |
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{{quote|At that time, Braden and Armour found that westerners wanted more updated information about the growing Riel Rebellion in the Northwest Territories. One year later, the Calgary Herald went daily. To meet demand, a new press was purchased that could print up to 400 papers an hour if a strong man was turning the crank. The paper was still experiencing growing pains and financial uncertainty in 1894, when J. J. Young took over the paper, saving it from near bankruptcy. During those early years, the newspaper was not so much published as improvised, with updated news provided by bulletins from passengers on the Canadian Pacific Railway.|Diane Howard, ''Encyclopedia of the Great Plains'', 2004}} |
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In November 2000, the ''Herald'' became part of [[Southam Newspapers]]. In 1996 the paper was sold to the [[Hollinger Corporation]] under [[Conrad Black]]. It was then sold to [[Canwest News Service]] a subsidiary of [[CanWest Global Communications]]. [[Canwest]] entered [[bankruptcy protection]] in late 2009 and announced Tuesday 13 July 2010 that its newspaper subsidiary has successfully emerged from creditor protection with new owners [[Postmedia Network|Postmedia]].<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.com"/><ref name="ctv.ca">{{cite web| url= http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100714/canwest-postmedia-100714/| author= The Canadian Press|title=Postmedia Network acquires Canwest's newspaper division| date= 14 July 2010| work = {{URL|www.ctv.ca}}| publisher = [[CTVglobemedia]]| accessdate = 17 December 2011 |location=Toronto}}</ref> |
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Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Company Limited and began publishing the '''''Calgary Daily Herald''''', a daily version of the newspaper, on 2 July 1885. |
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The ''Herald'' also publishes ''Neighbours'', a weekly community newspaper that is distributed with the ''Herald'' in some parts of Calgary, and ''Swerve'', a weekly magazine-style pullout. In the spring of 2005, the ''Herald'' joined several other CanWest Global affiliates in launching ''[[Dose (magazine)|Dose]]'', a free daily newspaper targeted at 20-something commuters; it was discontinued as a print publication after a year. |
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In 1897 the editor of the ''Herald'' was impressed by the "humor and witty journalistic prose" of [[Bob Edwards (Canadian satirist)|Bob Edwards]], then one of Canada's leading journalists, with a reputation as a critic of government and society and as a "supporter of the emancipation of women and the temperance crusade," and reprinted some of his articles in the ''Herald''.<ref name="Herald_History"/>{{rp|511–512}} |
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==Labour issues== |
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On 8 November 1999, [[labor union|unionized]] staff at the ''Herald'', including reporters, went on strike. The strike lasted until July 2000, during which many longtime ''Herald'' reporters left the newspaper. While some accepted a severance package, others returned to work on the condition that the union be dissolved.<ref name="chumirethicsfoundation.ca">{{cite book| url= http://www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/files/pdf/section4.pdf|series=Exposing the Boss: A Study In Canadian Journalism Ethics |title= A Case Study in Journalism Ethics: The Calgary Herald| first = | last = | author=Bob Bergen | date=May 2002| agency = [[Sheldon Chumir]]| work = {{URL|chumirethicsfoundation.ca}}| publisher = Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership| format = PDF| accessdate = 29 August 2015}}</ref> Many seasoned journalists were replaced by inexperienced staff and it took several years for the ''Herald'' to rebuild its readership after the strike. Former ''Herald'' staff who left during or as a result of the strike can be found working for other publications, most notably the weekly business-oriented publication ''Business Edge''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} |
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From February 1890 to August 1893 and from December 1894 to September 1895, the weekly paper appeared as the Wednesday issue of the daily paper. Publication of the daily paper was suspended between 21 September 1893 and 13 December 1894. Publication of a daily edition began in fall 1885.<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.ca"/> Publication of the ''Calgary Daily Herald'' under the name ''Calgary Herald'' began in February 1939, as an afternoon edition until April 1985. It is now delivered in the morning. |
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On 25 February 2011 the [[Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada]] (CEP) asked the [[Canadian federal government|federal government]] to review (under the [[Investment Canada Act]]) the 2010 purchase of the newspaper by [[Postmedia Network]].<ref name="cbc.ca1"/> Since 2010, Postmedia cut about 500 full-time jobs across the many newspapers it owns<ref name="cbc.ca1"/> to deal with the debt it inherited with the 2010 purchase.<ref name="cbc.ca2"/> CEP union spokesman Peter Murdoch said, "This is hardly of net benefit to Canadians, their communities or the critical flow of information in a democratic society."<ref name="cbc.ca1"/> |
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==Circulation== |
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The ''Calgary Herald'' has seen like most [[List of newspapers in Canada#Daily newspapers|Canadian daily newspapers]] a decline in [[Newspaper circulation|circulation]]. Its total circulation dropped by {{formatnum: {{#expr: abs(100 - (106916 / 124607 * 100)) round 0}}}} percent to 106,916 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.<ref name="Circulation">{{cite web|url=https://nmc-mic.ca/about-newspapers/circulation/daily-newspapers/|title=Daily Newspaper Circulation Data|work=News Media Canada|access-date=16 December 2017}}</ref> |
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{{Portal|Canada|Alberta|Journalism}} |
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*[[History of Canadian newspapers]] |
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*[[List of newspapers in Canada]] |
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*[[List of the largest Canadian newspapers by circulation]] |
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:::::::::'''Daily average'''<ref name="Circulation Chart">{{cite web|url=https://nmc-mic.ca/about-newspapers/circulation/daily-newspapers/|title=Daily Newspaper Circulation Data|work=News Media Canada|access-date=16 December 2017}} Figures refer to the total circulation (print and digital combined) which includes paid and unpaid copies.</ref> |
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== Footnotes == |
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===Southam=== |
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In January 1908, the [[Southam Newspaper Group|Southam Company]] purchased a majority interest in the ''Calgary Herald''.<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.ca"/> |
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===Hollinger Corporation=== |
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In 1996 the paper was sold to the [[Hollinger Corporation]] under [[Conrad Black]]. In November 2000, the ''Herald'' became part of [[Southam Newspapers]]. |
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===Canwest News Service=== |
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In July 2000, CanWest Global made Canadian media history with its $3.5 billion purchase of Hollinger's newspaper and internet assets, acquiring "136 daily and weekly newspapers," [which included the ''Calgary Herald'' and] half of ''The National Post'', 13 large big-city dailies, 85 trade publications and directories in the Southam Magazine and Information Group."<ref name="Asper_2003" /> |
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By 2003, Southam "was fully absorbed into [[CanWest Global Communications]]."<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.ca"/><ref name="Asper_2003">{{citation |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/asper-s-media-empire-30-years-in-the-making-1.411949 |title=Asper's media empire 30 years in the making |work=CBC News |date=4 December 2003 |access-date=30 August 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Canwest">{{citation |title=Canwest receives $34-million in Hollinger settlement |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/Canwest+receives+million+Hollinger+settlement/1381092/story.html |work=Calgary Herald |date=2011 |access-date=29 August 2015}}</ref> By 2003, [[Izzy Asper]] had built "CanWest Global into a profitable media powerhouse with annual revenues in excess of $2 billion and net earnings of $90 million."<ref name="Asper_2003" /> |
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{{cite web |
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| url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/02/25/cep-postmedia-canwest.html |
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| title = CEP union asks for Postmedia deal review |
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| author = The Canadian Press |
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| date = 25 February 2011 |
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| work = {{URL|cbc.ca/news/business}} |
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| publisher = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |
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| accessdate = 17 December 2011 |
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[[Canwest]] entered [[bankruptcy protection]] in late 2009. and announced Tuesday 13 July 2010 that its newspaper subsidiary has successfully emerged from creditor protection with new owners [[Postmedia Network|Postmedia]].<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.ca"/><ref name="ctv.ca">{{cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/postmedia-network-acquires-canwest-s-newspaper-division-1.532616 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115083354/https://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100714/canwest-postmedia-100714/ |url-status=live |archive-date=15 January 2013 |author=The Canadian Press |title=Postmedia Network acquires Canwest's newspaper division |date=14 July 2010 |work=ctv.ca |publisher=[[CTVglobemedia]] |access-date=17 December 2011 |location=Toronto}}</ref> |
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{{cite web |
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| url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/18/bc-times-colonist-sold.html |
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| title = Victoria Times Colonist sold to B.C. company » Deal part of the sale of 23 B.C. newspapers |
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| author = The Canadian Press |
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| date = 18 October 2011 |
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| work = {{URL|cbc.ca/news/business}} |
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| publisher = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |
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===Postmedia=== |
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[[Postmedia Network|Postmedia]] purchased the ''Calgary Herald'' from Canwest in 2010.<ref name="canadianencyclopedia.ca" /><ref name="cbc.ca1"/><ref name="cbc.ca2" /> Postmedia, backed by a New York hedge fund, holds some of Canada's largest daily newspapers, including the ''Post'', ''Vancouver Sun'', ''Calgary Herald'', and ''Ottawa Citizen''.<ref name="ctv.ca" /> |
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By October 2011, Postmedia had cut about 500 full-time jobs across the many newspapers it owns<ref name="cbc.ca1"/> to deal with the debt it inherited with the 2010 purchase.<ref name="cbc.ca2">{{cite web| url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-times-colonist-sold-to-b-c-company-1.1018285| title= Victoria Times Colonist sold to B.C. company Deal part of the sale of 23 B.C. newspapers| author= The Canadian Press| date= 18 October 2011| work= cbc.ca | publisher= [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]| access-date = 17 December 2011}}</ref> CEP union spokesman Peter Murdoch said, "This is hardly of net benefit to Canadians, their communities or the critical flow of information in a democratic society."<ref name="cbc.ca1"/> |
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{{quote|Since it emerged from bankruptcy court protection in July, 2010, Postmedia has erased 750 jobs, or 14 per cent of its work force, bringing to 1,700 the total number of staff eliminated at the company since 2008.|''Globe & Mail'' 2011}} |
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=== References === |
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*{{cite book |
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| title = Encyclopedia of the Great Plains |
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| isbn = 978-0-8032-4787-1 |
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| pages = 507–508 |
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| chapter = Calgary Herald |
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By 2011, the ''Calgary Herald'' newsroom was remodelled to enable teams to work on its websites and social media platforms like Twitter as advertising revenue migrated from printed to digital media. The ''Calgary Herald'', like Postmedia's 45 other metropolitan and community newspapers, was struggling financially. Postmedia's print circulation and advertising sales, which accounted for 90 percent of its revenue, declined, its debt load was heavy, which forced it to cut costs aggressively cut.<ref name="digital_glitch">{{cite web| url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-glitch-in-postmedias-digital-switch/article557351/?page=all| title = The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch| first1 = Acquie| last1 = McNish| first2 = Susan| last2 = Krashinsky| work = [[The Globe and Mail]]| access-date = 17 December 2011 |date= 29 September 2011 }}</ref> In spite of the digital innovations at the ''Calgary Herald'' in which staff did not have the protection of a union, and there were even deeper job cuts. Postmedia met with union-resistance at its other papers.<ref name="digital_glitch" /> |
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*{{cite web |
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| title = The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch |
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| publisher = [[The Globe & Mail]] |
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==Publishers== |
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| title = Hot Prospects » The Calgary Herald has huge ambitions: to turn a minor-league paper into a major-league daily—even if it means putting up with a slew of embarrassing rookie mistakes |
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===Frank Swanson=== |
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Frank Swanson, was ''Calgary Herald'' publisher from 1962 to 1982, when he retired after 44 years in journalism. During World War II, as war correspondent, he covered the [[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg war crimes trials]]. He worked for the Southam Newspapers group for the ''Edmonton Journal'' and ''The Citizen'' in Ottawa.<ref name="Swanson">{{citation |work=AP|location=Calgary |date=9 March 1990 |access-date=29 August 2015 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=19900309&id=W_kgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4026,1319083&hl=en |page=6 |title=Frank Swanson dies, publisher was 72}}</ref> Frank Swanson was Calgary Herald's publisher until his retirement in July 1982. Swanson oversaw the move of their headquarters from downtown Calgary to a "$70 million plant on a hill overlooking the intersection of Deerfoot and Memorial."<ref name="O_Callaghan" /> |
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===J. Patrick O'Callaghan=== |
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J. Patrick O'Callaghan (1925–1996), "an outspoken advocate of a free and vocal press" and publisher of ''The Windsor Star'', ''The Ottawa Citizen'', ''Edmonton Journal,'' was publisher of the ''Calgary Herald'' from 1982 to 1989. In 1994 he served as co-chairman of the Canadian Task Force on the Magazine Industry that recommended stronger enforcement of measures designed to protect Canada's magazine industry.<ref name="O_Callaghan">{{cite web | url=https://brianbrennan.ca/blog/2013/06/10/j-patrick-o-callaghan-maverick-publisher/ | title=J. Patrick O'Callaghan: Maverick publisher | date=10 June 2013 | access-date=29 August 2015 | author=Brian Brennan | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030060603/https://brianbrennan.ca/blog/2013/06/10/j-patrick-o-callaghan-maverick-publisher/ | archive-date=30 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="Canadian_Journalism_Ethics">{{cite book| url= https://www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/files/pdf/BergenCompleteReport.pdf|title=Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics | author=Bob Bergen | date=May 2002| publisher = Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership| access-date = 29 August 2015 |page=117}}</ref>{{rp|16}} |
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| magazine = [[Ryerson Review of Journalism]] |
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| publisher = Ryerson University |
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===Kevin Peterson=== |
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Kevin Peterson, joined the ''Calgary Herald'' in 1969, first as a political reporter for the following six years, then a series of editorial positions and finally as publisher from 1989 to 1995. "[U]nder his leadership, the Herald revamped every area of content, re-engineered its circulation function, and completely reorganized the complex process of selling, designing, and placing customers' advertising."<ref>{{citation |title=Staff - Canada West Foundation |work=Canada West Foundation }}</ref> |
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===Ken King=== |
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Ken King, then-publisher of ''The Calgary Sun'' with an advertising background, became publisher of the ''Calgary Herald'' in February 1996.<ref name="Canadian_Journalism_Ethics" /> By the time he left the newspaper business King had served for thirty years including senior executive positions with several of Canada's leading newspapers, as president and publisher of the ''Calgary Sun'' and ''Calgary Herald''. A few months after King's appointment as a publisher, Conrad Black acquired the Southam newspaper chain and the ''Calgary Herald''.<ref name="Canadian_Journalism_Ethics" />{{rp|17}} In his report entitled "Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics" journalist Bob Bergen argued that there were dramatic changes during this period. Bergen claimed that the Herald aligned itself "with the Calgary business community and entered into partnerships with the Calgary Flames hockey team, the Calgary Stampeders football team, the city of Calgary's Expo 2005 bid, and enhanced the newspaper's existing sponsorship of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede."<ref name="Canadian_Journalism_Ethics" />{{rp|17}} Bergen claimed that by October four new conservative columnists "Peter Stockland former editor of ''The Calgary Sun'' hired by King and, from eastern Canada, Giles Gherson on national economics, [[Andrew Coyne]] on national affairs, and [[Barbara Amiel]], a journalist who was also Black's wife. King explained the new conservative columnists complemented the Herald's other columnists including liberal Catherine Ford and Robert Bragg, who had left-leaning political views."<ref name="Canadian_Journalism_Ethics" />{{rp|18}} |
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===Malcolm Kirk=== |
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Malcolm Kirk, was appointed the Herald's publisher in August, 2006.<ref name="Kirk">{{citation |title=Lorne Motley named Herald editor-in-chief: The Calgary Herald appointed a new editor-in-chief Monday, naming deputy editor Lorne Motley to the newsroom's top post |work=Calgary Herald |date=3 October 2006 |url=https://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=11c43000-8f70-44a2-b76d-5eb7f98cd061 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923221721/https://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=11c43000-8f70-44a2-b76d-5eb7f98cd061 |archive-date=23 September 2015 }}</ref> |
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The ''Herald'' also publishes ''Neighbours'', a weekly community newspaper that is distributed with the ''Herald'' in some parts of Calgary, and ''Swerve'', a weekly magazine-style pullout. In the spring of 2005, the ''Herald'' joined several other CanWest Global affiliates in launching ''[[Dose (magazine)|Dose]]'', a free daily newspaper targeted at younger commuters; it was discontinued as a print publication after a year. |
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===Guy Huntingford=== |
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In August 2010 Paul Godfrey President and CEO of Postmedia Network announced the appointment of Guy Huntingford as the publisher of the ''Calgary Herald'' as it "continues its transformation into an integrated multimedia brand."<ref name="Huntingford">{{citation |title=Postmedia Network Inc. Appoints Guy Huntingford Publisher of the Calgary Herald |date=12 August 2010 |location=Toronto|work=Postmedia |url=https://www.postmedia.com/2010/08/12/postmedia-network-inc-appoints-guy-huntingford-publisher-of-the-calgary-herald/ |access-date=29 August 2015}}</ref> In April 2013 Godfrey announced that was "eliminating the publisher position at its chain of 10 newspapers, which includes the ''National Post'', the ''Montreal Gazette'', the ''Ottawa Citizen''" and the ''Calgary Herald'' in a cost-cutting measure.<ref name="publishers">{{cite web | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/postmedia-drops-publishers/article11641035/ | title=Postmedia drops publishers | work=The Globe and Mail | date=30 April 2013 | access-date=29 August 2015 | author=Simon Houpt}}</ref> |
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==Labour issues== |
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Changes, including downsizing and cut wages, introduced by the [[Hollinger Corporation]] after its purchase of the ''Calgary Herald'' in 1996, led to ''Herald'' staff voting to unionize in 1998 under the [[Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kovacaj |first=Fiona |title=Boycott Movements |url=https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/unionbuttonproject/boycotts |access-date=July 6, 2023 |website=University of Toronto Exhibits}}</ref> On 8 November 1999, [[labor union|unionized]] staff at the ''Herald'', including reporters, went on strike. The strike lasted until July 2000, during which many longtime ''Herald'' reporters left the newspaper. While some accepted a severance package, others returned to work on the condition that the union be dissolved.<ref name="chumirethicsfoundation.ca">{{cite book|chapter-url= https://www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/files/pdf/section4.pdf|title=Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics |chapter= A Case Study in Journalism Ethics: The ''Calgary Herald'' | author=Bob Bergen | date=May 2002 |publisher=Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership| access-date = 29 August 2015}}</ref> Many seasoned journalists were replaced by inexperienced staff and it took several years for the ''Herald'' to rebuild its readership after the strike. Former ''Herald'' staff who left during or as a result of the strike can be found working for other publications, most notably the weekly business-oriented publication ''Business Edge''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} |
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On 25 February 2011 the [[Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada]] (CEP) asked the [[Canadian federal government|federal government]] to review (under the [[Investment Canada Act]]) the 2010 purchase of the newspaper by [[Postmedia Network]].<ref name="cbc.ca1">{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cep-union-asks-for-postmedia-deal-review-1.984744| title = CEP union asks for Postmedia deal review| author= The Canadian Press| date = 25 February 2011| work= cbc.ca | publisher= [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]| access-date = 17 December 2011}}</ref> |
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A June 2010 series, "Worked to Death" on the "human costs of Alberta's economic boom" by Chris Varcoe and research by Kelly Cryderman and Renata D'Aliesio, won the 2010 [[Michener Award]], one of the highest distinctions in Canadian journalism. In his June 14, 2011 acceptance speech, Varcoe acknowledged the support of the newspaper, particularly editors Lorne Motley and Monica Zurowski, who invested resources for over a year to "important civic journalism".<ref name="Micherner_20110614">{{Cite news| title = The Story behind the story: Reporter Chris Varcoe – The Calgary Herald |date=June 14, 2011| work = Michener Awards Foundation| access-date = April 14, 2021| url = https://www.michenerawards.ca/english/reporters2010/the-story-behind-the-story-reporter-chris-varcoe-the-calgary-herald/}}</ref> The series was the culmination of collaboration work by a "photographers, researchers, editors, graphic artists and online journalists" that spanned a year. The series resulted in changes in the way in which the Alberta government improved the province's workplace safety enforcement system.<ref name="Micherner_20110614"/> |
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* [[Bruce Dowbiggin]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Paikin |first1=Steve |title=Three Questions with Bruce Dowbiggin |url=https://www.tvo.org//blog/current-affairs/three-questions-with-bruce-dowbiggin |website=tvo.org |access-date=4 March 2019 |date=5 October 2009}}</ref> |
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*{{cite thesis |title=From Canvas Walls to Marble Halls: A History of the First Thirty Years of the Calgary Herald |degree=Bachelor |work=University of Calgary |date= 1983 |author=Sydney Suissa}} |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Postmedia Network |
| Editor | Lorne Motley |
| Founded | 13 August 1883 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 215 16th Street SE, Calgary, Alberta |
| Circulation | 107,954 weekdays 101,725 Saturdays (as of 2015)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | Edmonton Journal |
| ISSN | 0828-1815 (print) 1197-2823 (web) |
| OCLC number | 29533985 |
| Website | calgaryherald.com |
The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser. It is owned by the Postmedia Network.
History
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The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler."[2]: 507–508 [3] It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary.[2][4] A year's subscription cost $3.[2]: 507–508
When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack.[2]: 507–508 Cayley quickly became partner and editor.
At that time, Braden and Armour found that westerners wanted more updated information about the growing Riel Rebellion in the Northwest Territories. One year later, the Calgary Herald went daily. To meet demand, a new press was purchased that could print up to 400 papers an hour if a strong man was turning the crank. The paper was still experiencing growing pains and financial uncertainty in 1894, when J. J. Young took over the paper, saving it from near bankruptcy. During those early years, the newspaper was not so much published as improvised, with updated news provided by bulletins from passengers on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
— Diane Howard, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2004
Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Company Limited and began publishing the Calgary Daily Herald, a daily version of the newspaper, on 2 July 1885.
In 1897 the editor of the Herald was impressed by the "humor and witty journalistic prose" of Bob Edwards, then one of Canada's leading journalists, with a reputation as a critic of government and society and as a "supporter of the emancipation of women and the temperance crusade," and reprinted some of his articles in the Herald.[2]: 511–512
From February 1890 to August 1893 and from December 1894 to September 1895, the weekly paper appeared as the Wednesday issue of the daily paper. Publication of the daily paper was suspended between 21 September 1893 and 13 December 1894. Publication of a daily edition began in fall 1885.[3] Publication of the Calgary Daily Herald under the name Calgary Herald began in February 1939, as an afternoon edition until April 1985. It is now delivered in the morning.
Circulation
[edit]The Calgary Herald has seen like most Canadian daily newspapers a decline in circulation. Its total circulation dropped by 14 percent to 106,916 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.[5]
- Daily average[6]
Ownership
[edit]Southam
[edit]In January 1908, the Southam Company purchased a majority interest in the Calgary Herald.[3]
Hollinger Corporation
[edit]In 1996 the paper was sold to the Hollinger Corporation under Conrad Black. In November 2000, the Herald became part of Southam Newspapers.
Canwest News Service
[edit]In July 2000, CanWest Global made Canadian media history with its $3.5 billion purchase of Hollinger's newspaper and internet assets, acquiring "136 daily and weekly newspapers," [which included the Calgary Herald and] half of The National Post, 13 large big-city dailies, 85 trade publications and directories in the Southam Magazine and Information Group."[7]
By 2003, Southam "was fully absorbed into CanWest Global Communications."[3][7][8] By 2003, Izzy Asper had built "CanWest Global into a profitable media powerhouse with annual revenues in excess of $2 billion and net earnings of $90 million."[7]
Canwest entered bankruptcy protection in late 2009. and announced Tuesday 13 July 2010 that its newspaper subsidiary has successfully emerged from creditor protection with new owners Postmedia.[3][9]
Postmedia
[edit]Postmedia purchased the Calgary Herald from Canwest in 2010.[3][10][11] Postmedia, backed by a New York hedge fund, holds some of Canada's largest daily newspapers, including the Post, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, and Ottawa Citizen.[9]
By October 2011, Postmedia had cut about 500 full-time jobs across the many newspapers it owns[10] to deal with the debt it inherited with the 2010 purchase.[11] CEP union spokesman Peter Murdoch said, "This is hardly of net benefit to Canadians, their communities or the critical flow of information in a democratic society."[10]
Since it emerged from bankruptcy court protection in July, 2010, Postmedia has erased 750 jobs, or 14 per cent of its work force, bringing to 1,700 the total number of staff eliminated at the company since 2008.
— Globe & Mail 2011
By 2011, the Calgary Herald newsroom was remodelled to enable teams to work on its websites and social media platforms like Twitter as advertising revenue migrated from printed to digital media. The Calgary Herald, like Postmedia's 45 other metropolitan and community newspapers, was struggling financially. Postmedia's print circulation and advertising sales, which accounted for 90 percent of its revenue, declined, its debt load was heavy, which forced it to cut costs aggressively cut.[12] In spite of the digital innovations at the Calgary Herald in which staff did not have the protection of a union, and there were even deeper job cuts. Postmedia met with union-resistance at its other papers.[12]
Publishers
[edit]Frank Swanson
[edit]Frank Swanson, was Calgary Herald publisher from 1962 to 1982, when he retired after 44 years in journalism. During World War II, as war correspondent, he covered the Nuremberg war crimes trials. He worked for the Southam Newspapers group for the Edmonton Journal and The Citizen in Ottawa.[13] Frank Swanson was Calgary Herald's publisher until his retirement in July 1982. Swanson oversaw the move of their headquarters from downtown Calgary to a "$70 million plant on a hill overlooking the intersection of Deerfoot and Memorial."[14]
J. Patrick O'Callaghan
[edit]J. Patrick O'Callaghan (1925–1996), "an outspoken advocate of a free and vocal press" and publisher of The Windsor Star, The Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, was publisher of the Calgary Herald from 1982 to 1989. In 1994 he served as co-chairman of the Canadian Task Force on the Magazine Industry that recommended stronger enforcement of measures designed to protect Canada's magazine industry.[14][15]: 16
Kevin Peterson
[edit]Kevin Peterson, joined the Calgary Herald in 1969, first as a political reporter for the following six years, then a series of editorial positions and finally as publisher from 1989 to 1995. "[U]nder his leadership, the Herald revamped every area of content, re-engineered its circulation function, and completely reorganized the complex process of selling, designing, and placing customers' advertising."[16]
Ken King
[edit]Ken King, then-publisher of The Calgary Sun with an advertising background, became publisher of the Calgary Herald in February 1996.[15] By the time he left the newspaper business King had served for thirty years including senior executive positions with several of Canada's leading newspapers, as president and publisher of the Calgary Sun and Calgary Herald. A few months after King's appointment as a publisher, Conrad Black acquired the Southam newspaper chain and the Calgary Herald.[15]: 17 In his report entitled "Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics" journalist Bob Bergen argued that there were dramatic changes during this period. Bergen claimed that the Herald aligned itself "with the Calgary business community and entered into partnerships with the Calgary Flames hockey team, the Calgary Stampeders football team, the city of Calgary's Expo 2005 bid, and enhanced the newspaper's existing sponsorship of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede."[15]: 17 Bergen claimed that by October four new conservative columnists "Peter Stockland former editor of The Calgary Sun hired by King and, from eastern Canada, Giles Gherson on national economics, Andrew Coyne on national affairs, and Barbara Amiel, a journalist who was also Black's wife. King explained the new conservative columnists complemented the Herald's other columnists including liberal Catherine Ford and Robert Bragg, who had left-leaning political views."[15]: 18
Malcolm Kirk
[edit]Malcolm Kirk, was appointed the Herald's publisher in August, 2006.[17]
The Herald also publishes Neighbours, a weekly community newspaper that is distributed with the Herald in some parts of Calgary, and Swerve, a weekly magazine-style pullout. In the spring of 2005, the Herald joined several other CanWest Global affiliates in launching Dose, a free daily newspaper targeted at younger commuters; it was discontinued as a print publication after a year.
Guy Huntingford
[edit]In August 2010 Paul Godfrey President and CEO of Postmedia Network announced the appointment of Guy Huntingford as the publisher of the Calgary Herald as it "continues its transformation into an integrated multimedia brand."[18] In April 2013 Godfrey announced that was "eliminating the publisher position at its chain of 10 newspapers, which includes the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen" and the Calgary Herald in a cost-cutting measure.[19]
Labour issues
[edit]Changes, including downsizing and cut wages, introduced by the Hollinger Corporation after its purchase of the Calgary Herald in 1996, led to Herald staff voting to unionize in 1998 under the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.[20] On 8 November 1999, unionized staff at the Herald, including reporters, went on strike. The strike lasted until July 2000, during which many longtime Herald reporters left the newspaper. While some accepted a severance package, others returned to work on the condition that the union be dissolved.[21] Many seasoned journalists were replaced by inexperienced staff and it took several years for the Herald to rebuild its readership after the strike. Former Herald staff who left during or as a result of the strike can be found working for other publications, most notably the weekly business-oriented publication Business Edge.[citation needed]
On 25 February 2011 the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) asked the federal government to review (under the Investment Canada Act) the 2010 purchase of the newspaper by Postmedia Network.[10]
Awards
[edit]A June 2010 series, "Worked to Death" on the "human costs of Alberta's economic boom" by Chris Varcoe and research by Kelly Cryderman and Renata D'Aliesio, won the 2010 Michener Award, one of the highest distinctions in Canadian journalism. In his June 14, 2011 acceptance speech, Varcoe acknowledged the support of the newspaper, particularly editors Lorne Motley and Monica Zurowski, who invested resources for over a year to "important civic journalism".[22] The series was the culmination of collaboration work by a "photographers, researchers, editors, graphic artists and online journalists" that spanned a year. The series resulted in changes in the way in which the Alberta government improved the province's workplace safety enforcement system.[22]
Notable journalists
[edit]See also
[edit]
- History of Canadian newspapers
- List of newspapers in Canada
- List of the largest Canadian newspapers by circulation
Citations
[edit]- ^ "2015 Daily Newspaper Circulation Spreadsheet (Excel)". News Media Canada. Retrieved 16 December 2017. Numbers are based on the total circulation (print plus digital editions).
- ^ a b c d e Diane Howard (2004), Wishart, David J. (ed.), Bob Edwards, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- ^ a b c d e f Bergen, Bob. "Calgary Herald". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ^ Ward, Tom (1975). Cowtown: an album of early Calgary. Calgary: City of Calgary Electric System, McClelland and Stewart West. p. 120. ISBN 0-7712-1012-4. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Daily Newspaper Circulation Data". News Media Canada. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ "Daily Newspaper Circulation Data". News Media Canada. Retrieved 16 December 2017. Figures refer to the total circulation (print and digital combined) which includes paid and unpaid copies.
- ^ a b c "Asper's media empire 30 years in the making", CBC News, 4 December 2003, retrieved 30 August 2015
- ^ "Canwest receives $34-million in Hollinger settlement", Calgary Herald, 2011, retrieved 29 August 2015
- ^ a b The Canadian Press (14 July 2010). "Postmedia Network acquires Canwest's newspaper division". ctv.ca. Toronto: CTVglobemedia. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d The Canadian Press (25 February 2011). "CEP union asks for Postmedia deal review". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ a b The Canadian Press (18 October 2011). "Victoria Times Colonist sold to B.C. company Deal part of the sale of 23 B.C. newspapers". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ a b McNish, Acquie; Krashinsky, Susan (29 September 2011). "The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ "Frank Swanson dies, publisher was 72", AP, Calgary, p. 6, 9 March 1990, retrieved 29 August 2015
- ^ a b Brian Brennan (10 June 2013). "J. Patrick O'Callaghan: Maverick publisher". Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Bob Bergen (May 2002). Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics (PDF). Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. p. 117. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Staff - Canada West Foundation", Canada West Foundation
- ^ "Lorne Motley named Herald editor-in-chief: The Calgary Herald appointed a new editor-in-chief Monday, naming deputy editor Lorne Motley to the newsroom's top post", Calgary Herald, 3 October 2006, archived from the original on 23 September 2015
- ^ "Postmedia Network Inc. Appoints Guy Huntingford Publisher of the Calgary Herald", Postmedia, Toronto, 12 August 2010, retrieved 29 August 2015
- ^ Simon Houpt (30 April 2013). "Postmedia drops publishers". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ Kovacaj, Fiona. "Boycott Movements". University of Toronto Exhibits. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ Bob Bergen (May 2002). "A Case Study in Journalism Ethics: The Calgary Herald" (PDF). Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ a b "The Story behind the story: Reporter Chris Varcoe – The Calgary Herald". Michener Awards Foundation. 14 June 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ Paikin, Steve (5 October 2009). "Three Questions with Bruce Dowbiggin". tvo.org. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
References
[edit]- Mather, John (Summer 2007). "Hot Prospects". Ryerson Review of Journalism. ISSN 0838-0651. OCLC 62576541. Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- Sydney Suissa (1983). From Canvas Walls to Marble Halls: A History of the First Thirty Years of the Calgary Herald. University of Calgary (Bachelor thesis).
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Official mobile site (archived 11 July 2012)
- Canadian Newspaper Association Archived 27 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine obtain Canadian newspaper circulation numbers from Canadian Newspaper Association