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Edmonton Journal
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | CanWest Global Communications Corp. |
| Editor | Allan Mayer |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta |
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| Website: www.edmontonjournal.com | |
The Edmonton Journal is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the CanWest News Service division of CanWest Global Communications.
The Journal was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the twenty-three year-old Edmonton Bulletin. Within a week, the Journal took over another newspaper, The Edmonton Post, and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative party against the Bulletin's pro-Liberal stance. In 1912, the Journal was sold to the Southam family.
Alberta's first radio station, CJCA, began broadcasting from the Journal building in 1922.
In 1937, the Journal came into conflict with Alberta Premier William Aberhart's attempt to pass an Act requiring newspapers to print government rebuttals to stories the provincial cabinet deemed "inaccurate." After successfully fighting the Bill all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, the Journal became the first non-American newspaper to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize, winning a special bronze plaque in 1938 for defending the freedom of the press.
After the Bulletin folded in 1951, the Journal was left as Edmonton's oldest and only remaining daily newspaper. This continued until The Edmonton Sun began publishing in 1978.
According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the Journal boasts a weekly circulation of 895,461 as of March 2006.
Monday-Thursday, Sunday- $1.00 CDN Friday-Saturday- $1.50 CDN
Layoffs announced today for the Edmonton Journal newsroom. Canwest is looking to remove 20 employees by the end of February 2008. Severance packages have been offered. Three weeks per year of service to a maximum of 78 weeks pay.
To facilitate the decreased staff, 120 pages a week will be sent to a central pagination department in Hamilton.
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| Corporate Directors | David Asper • Gail Asper • Leonard Asper • Lloyd Barber • Derek Burney • Ronald Daniels • David Drybrough • Paul Godfrey • Frank King • Lisa Pankratz |
| Newspapers | Calgary Herald • Dose • Edmonton Journal • Montreal Gazette • National Post • Ottawa Citizen • Regina Leader-Post • Saskatoon StarPhoenix • The Province (Vancouver) • Vancouver Sun • Victoria Times-Colonist • Windsor Star |
| Television Assets | E!: CHBC • CHCA • CHCH • CHEK • CJNT Global: CFRE • CFSK • CHAN • CICT • CIHF • CIII • CISA • CITV • CKMI • CKND CoolTV • DejaView • Fox Sports World Canada • Lonestar • mentv1 • Mystery TV1 • TVtropolis • X-Treme Sports |
| Assets outside of Canada | Original 106: Solent/Bristol/Aberdeen (UK) |
| 1 Co-owned with Quebecor, with CanWest having management responsibilities. | |
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