Dawson Creek Daily News
| Dawson Creek Daily News
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| description | Canadian daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Glacier Media |
| First edition | May 6, 1930 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Web link | DawsonCreekDailyNews.ca |
The Dawson Creek Daily News is a daily newspaper covering Dawson Creek and the South Peace River region in northeast British Columbia , Canada . The newspaper was founded in 1930 under the title Peace River Block News and has been owned by Glacier Media since 2006 .
history
Charles S. Kitchen, James E. "Cap" Lean, and Bill Carruthers published the first issue of the Peace River Block News weekly in Rolla, British Columbia, in 1930. Half a year later, Dawson Creek became a railroad hub and the newspaper moved its headquarters there. The Kitchen family carried on and enlarged the newspaper; by 1970 the daily circulation reached 5,300 copies per week and 22 people were employed.
In 1972, Norm Kitchen sold the Peace River Block News to Del Folk and Don Marshall, who then increased the frequency to twice a week, it was now published on Wednesdays and Fridays. Marshall later became the sole owner and remained the editor for a few years until after 1976 he sold the newspaper to Sterling Newspapers Ltd. sold, a subsidiary of Hollinger Inc. , a newspaper conglomerate controlled by Conrad Black .
Sterling converted the newspaper into a daily newspaper and modernized the printing plant in 1987.
Together with several other small daily newspapers in British Columbia, the Peace River Block News was owned by Hollinger until the end, until it was sold to Vancouver- based Glacier Ventures International (later Glacier Media) in 2006. The following year, Glacier Media renamed the newspaper Dawson Creek Daily News .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dawson Creek Daily News: About Us . In: www.DawsonCreekDailyNews.ca . Archived from the original on April 13, 2012. Retrieved on March 29, 2012.
- ↑ Oh, Canada! Hollinger International Exits Nation With $ 104M Deal . In: Editor & Publisher , January 11, 2006. Retrieved March 29, 2012.