Times Colonist
| Times Colonist | |
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| description | daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | TC Publication Limited Partnership Glacier Media ( Canada ) |
| First edition | 1884/1858/1980 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 58,663 working day 57,788 Saturday edition 57,499 (2011) copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Dave Obee |
| editor | Bob McKenzie |
| Web link | Times Colonist |
The Times-Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper published in Victoria , the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia . It emerged from the merger of the Victoria Daily Times, founded in 1884, and the British Colonist, founded in 1858 (later Daily Colonist ). Its founder was Amor De Cosmos , British Columbia's second premier.
Today, the Times Colonist in possession of is TC Publication Limited Partnership and Glacier Media (formerly Canwest ), the more leaves in Alberta ( Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald ), and in Manitoba and Saskatchewan ( Saskatoon Star Phoenix , Regina Leader Post ), but also the Ottawa Citizen , the Gazette of Montreal and especially the National Post . On Vancouver Island there are also the CH News Vancouver Island , the Nanaimo Daily News , the Alberni Valley Times , the Cowichan Citizen and the Comox Valley Echo , and finally the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province .
The Times Colonist offers the standard spectrum of a local paper, including the local focus on Victoria. The circulation is over 70,000 copies, with a slightly higher circulation on weekends. Apart from advertising leaflets, the newspaper is the only daily regional newspaper in the provincial capital.
history
The importance of the newspaper is evident from the fact that four prime ministers edited or directed the newspaper. Amor De Cosmos founded the British Colonist to put pressure on his political opponent James Douglas . The first edition, then a weekly paper, appeared on December 11, 1858, had four pages and was printed on a hand press on Wharf Street. The editor had recently come to Victoria from Nova Scotia via California . The first subscriber was an Edward Cody Johnson.
His demands were independence from Great Britain , the resignation of Douglas and that Victoria should remain the capital of British Columbia.
In 1859 they dared to have three issues a week, and in 1860 the paper appeared as the Daily British Colonist . But De Cosmos was already selling three years later, even though he had upgraded the sheet with a Hoe Cylinder Press that printed a thousand copies an hour. The paper moved to the west side of Government Street.
As early as 1861 a competing newspaper appeared, the Chronicle and the two papers brought each other almost to the brink of ruin. In 1862 they merged to form the Daily British Colonist and Morning Chronicle (the second part of the name disappeared in 1873, the British ten years later), and the newspaper came into the possession of David W. Higgins and TH Long.
In 1869 John Robson was the editor, the second premier. He adhered strictly to the Sunday rest period, and so the newspaper only appeared from Tuesday to Sunday, the Monday edition was dropped - a principle that lasted until 1983. In 1873 the expanding newspaper moved to a four-story building on Government Street (now the Bedford Regency Hotel), but now it faced competition from De Cosmos with its new newspaper The Standard .
However, the Victoria Daily Times , which sold in the afternoon and appeared for the first time on June 9, 1884, soon became the toughest competitor . With the emergence of the parties around 1903, it was considered the newspaper of the Liberal Party . One of their partners was John Grant, later mayor, Robert Beaver , ex-premier at the time, and the doctor Dr. GL Milne. But soon William Templeman from Ontario controlled the newspaper until his death in 1914. He acquired the former Busy Bee Saloon , and the newspaper stayed there for over four decades.
In the 1890s, the Colonist moved to the east side of Broad Street between Yates and View Streets. The new press was now able to handle 20,000 sheets per hour. In 1886 the newspaper came into the possession of WH Ellis and AG Sargison, who in turn sold it in 1892 to James Dunsmuir , the richest man in the province. He founded Colonist Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.
As long as his family was involved in politics, the Dunsmuirs used the newspaper to spread their political ideas, but in 1906 they sold it to Sam Matson, who turned it into a conservative paper. On the other hand, he made sure for the first time that employees could acquire entitlements to pensions. After his death, his son Jack took over the newspaper in 1931, followed by a brother Tim in 1934.
The Daily Times was meanwhile sold to the Spencer family, but their financial reserves were slim. This situation was only stabilized by Max Bell from Calgary , who bought the newspaper in 1950, along with the colonist . Both newspapers were now owned by Victoria Press Ltd. In May of the following year, the newspapers left their traditional location in Downtown Victoria and moved to 2631 Douglas Street, near their current location at 2621 Douglas Street. They moved there in 1972, converting the old North Ward School .
Bell continued to keep the newsrooms separate, even as the printing company and management became more and more one.
It was not until Thomson Newspapers bought it in 1980 that the Times Colonist came into being , with a morning and an afternoon edition, as is customary. They appeared on September 2nd of that year. From 1983 the double edition ceased, instead the newspaper appeared again on Mondays.
Again in 1998 the Times Colonist was sold, this time to Southam Newspapers , whereby in 2000 CanWest Publications took over the Southam group and with it the Times Colonist .
In 2006 the house employed 12 full-time reporters, a columnist, two business reporters and 6 photographers.
In 2005, the Times Colonist received an award from the Jack Webster Foundation - the highest award in the province in the sector - for best coverage. But local reporting is not always independent of lobby associations, as the brief dismissal of a journalist in 2005 showed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alliance for Audited Media ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved March 20, 2013
- ↑ See Shannon Rupp, Veteran Journalist Fired, Rehired by Times Colonist, in: The Tyee, February 22, 2008, first publ. on July 25, 2006 .
