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Calgary Herald
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Postmedia Network
PublisherGuy Huntingford
EditorLorne Motley
Founded13 August 1883 (1883-08-13)
Headquarters215 16th Street SE, Calgary, Alberta
Circulation123,722 daily
118,568 Saturday
113,815 Sunday in 2011[1]
Sister newspapersEdmonton Journal
ISSN1197-2823
OCLC number29533985
Websitecalgaryherald.com

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.

History

Political Cartoon of Alexander Grant MacKay moving from Ontario to Alberta, Calgary Herald, May 26, 1912

The The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser was first published 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][4] 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][5] 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 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— one of Canada's leading journalists at the time— with a reputation as critic of government and society and as a "supporter of the emancipation of women and the temperance crusade" reprinted some of Edwards' articles in the Herald.[6]: 511–512 

In January 1908, the Southam Company purchased a majority interest.[4] 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.[4] 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.

J. Patrick O’Callaghan publisher 1982-1989

J. Patrick O’Callaghan (1925 – 1996), "an outspoken advocate of a free and vocal press," 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.[7]: 16 


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.[4][8]

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 20-something commuters; it was discontinued as a print publication after a year.

Labour issues

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.[9] 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] Since 2010, Postmedia 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]

See also

Citations

  1. ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations e-Circ data for the six months ending September 30, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d Diane Howard (2004), Wishart, David J. (ed.), Bob Edwards, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  3. ^ "About Us". Calgary Herald. Postmedia Network. calgaryherald.com. ISSN 1197-2823. OCLC 29533985. Retrieved 17 December 2011. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d Bergen, Bob. "Calgary Herald". The Canadian Encyclopedia. The Historica Dominion Institute. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 December 2011. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Diane Howard (2004), Wishart, David J. (ed.), Bob Edwards, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ The Canadian Press (14 July 2010). "Postmedia Network acquires Canwest's newspaper division". www.ctv.ca. Toronto: CTVglobemedia. Retrieved 17 December 2011. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  9. ^ 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. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  10. ^ a b c The Canadian Press (25 February 2011). "CEP union asks for Postmedia deal review". cbc.ca/news/business. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 December 2011. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  11. ^ 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/news/business. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 December 2011. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

References

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