The Mid-North Monitor is a Canadian weekly newspaper, published in Espanola , Ontario . The newspaper has a readership circulation of just under 2,400 copies weekly.
7-737: The newspaper just celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2008 as the Mid-North Monitor , but there were several predecessors including the Mid-North Weekly and the Espanola Standard . The region is also served by the Sudbury Star . In addition to Espanola, the newspaper serves the communities Sables-Spanish Rivers , Baldwin , Nairn and Hyman and Spanish , as well as the first nations of Serpent River , Sagamok and Whitefish River . This article about
14-670: A Canadian newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sudbury Star The Sudbury Star is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury , Ontario . It is owned by the media company, Postmedia . It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation. The Sudbury Star began as a daily in January 1909 as the Northern Daily Star , in competition with
21-554: The Scene had deliberately undercut the Sun' s advertising rates to protect Thomson's monopoly on English-language periodical publication in the city. The federal trade practices commission ruled in Thomson's favour. The paper was sold to Southam Newspapers in 1996, to Osprey Media in 2001, and to Sun Media in 2007. In 2015 Postmedia Network acquired Sun Media. In October 2013
28-405: The city's established daily Sudbury Journal , but it was in immediate financial trouble and folded within just six months. Staff took over ownership of the struggling newspaper, led by foreman William Edge Mason, who then found 10 prominent investors to provide financial backing to the paper. W.E. Mason Equipment was created to take over management of the paper, and by World War I the paper
35-545: The ownership of Mason's estate until 1950, when J. R. Meakes, Mason's successor as publisher and general manager, bought the paper with co-investors George Miller, Jim Cooper and Bill Plaunt. The same investment group launched CKSO-TV , the city's first television station and the first television station in Canada not owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , in 1953. In 1955 the paper
42-521: Was acquired by Thomson Newspapers . Meakes remained as publisher and general manager until his retirement in 1975. In the early 1960s, the city saw a "newspaper war" between two startup weekly newspapers, the Sudbury Sun and the Star -owned Sudbury Scene . The Sun , a publication of Northland Publishers, was out of business by 1962, and filed a competition lawsuit against the Scene , alleging that
49-647: Was flourishing and the Sudbury Journal was out of business. In 1922 Mason acquired the North Bay Nugget in North Bay . In 1935, Mason launched the city's first commercial radio station, CKSO . In 1948, Mason died and ownership of the paper was taken over by his W.E. Mason Estate. The Nugget was almost immediately sold in an employee buyout , but the Sudbury Star remained under
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