Daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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."
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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.
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A year's subscription cost $3.
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When
Hugh St. Quentin Cayley
became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack.
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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
.
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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.
[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
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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.
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- Daily average
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25,000
50,000
75,000
100,000
125,000
150,000
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Ownership
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]
Southam
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]
In January 1908, the
Southam Company
purchased a majority interest in the
Calgary Herald
.
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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
.
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."
[7]
By 2003, Southam "was fully absorbed into
CanWest Global Communications
."
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[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
.
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Postmedia
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]
Postmedia
purchased the
Calgary Herald
from Canwest in 2010.
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[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.
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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.
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Publishers
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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 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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
.
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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."
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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."
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Malcolm Kirk
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]
Malcolm Kirk, was appointed the Herald's publisher in August, 2006.
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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
, a free daily newspaper targeted at younger commuters; it was discontinued as a print publication after a year.
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."
[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.
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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
.
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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.
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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
.
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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
.
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Awards
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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".
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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.
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Notable journalists
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See also
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Citations
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"2015 Daily Newspaper Circulation Spreadsheet (Excel)"
.
News Media Canada
. Retrieved
16 December
2017
.
Numbers are based on the total circulation (print plus digital editions).
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e
Diane Howard (2004),
Wishart, David J.
(ed.),
Bob Edwards
, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
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c
d
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f
Bergen, Bob.
"Calgary Herald"
.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
.
Historica Canada
. Retrieved
19 August
2019
.
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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
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the original
on 3 January 2020
. Retrieved
3 October
2014
.
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"Daily Newspaper Circulation Data"
.
News Media Canada
. Retrieved
16 December
2017
.
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"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.
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b
c
"Asper's media empire 30 years in the making"
,
CBC News
, 4 December 2003
, retrieved
30 August
2015
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"Canwest receives $34-million in Hollinger settlement"
,
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. Toronto:
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.
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17 December
2011
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.
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.
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17 December
2011
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,
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b
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on 30 October 2015
. Retrieved
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.
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e
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. Retrieved
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.
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"Staff - Canada West Foundation",
Canada West Foundation
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"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"
,
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, 3 October 2006, archived from
the original
on 23 September 2015
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"Postmedia Network Inc. Appoints Guy Huntingford Publisher of the Calgary Herald"
,
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, Toronto, 12 August 2010
, retrieved
29 August
2015
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Simon Houpt (30 April 2013).
"Postmedia drops publishers"
.
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.
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Kovacaj, Fiona.
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.
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.
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Bob Bergen (May 2002).
"A Case Study in Journalism Ethics: The
Calgary Herald
"
(PDF)
.
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. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
. Retrieved
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2015
.
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Paikin, Steve (5 October 2009).
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