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Ottawa Citizen
Canadian daily newspaper in Ontario From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[5]
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Established as the Bytown Packet in 1845 by William Harris, it was renamed the Citizen in 1851.[6] The newspaper's original motto, which has recently been returned to the editorial page, was Fair Play and Day-Light.[7]
The paper has been through a number of owners. In 1846, Harris sold the paper to John Gordon Bell and Henry J. Friel.[8] Robert Bell bought the paper in 1849, and sold it to I.B. Taylor in 1861.[9] In 1877, Charles Herbert Mackintosh became the principal owner, and he later sold it to Robert and Lewis Shannon.[10]
In 1897, the Citizen became one of several papers owned by the Southam family.[11] It remained under Southam until the chain was purchased by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. in 1996.[7] In 2000, the chain was sold to Canwest Global, which was taken over by Postmedia Network in 2010.[12][13]
The editorial view of the Citizen has varied with its ownership, taking a reform position under Friel,[8] and a conservative position (supporting John A. Macdonald) under Mackintosh.[10] When the Liberals defeated the Tory government in 1896, the owners of the Citizen decided to sell to Southam, rather than face an expected cut in government revenue.[11] In 2002, the Citizen's publisher, Russell Mills, was dismissed following the publication of a story critical of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and an editorial calling for Chrétien's resignation.[14]
The Citizen published its last Sunday edition on July 15, 2012. This move meant 20 fewer newsroom jobs, and was part of a series of changes made by Postmedia.[15] The Citizen stopped producing a print edition on Mondays as of 17 October 2022, due to the costs of printing and delivery, but it continued to publish a digital Monday edition.[2]
The pre-2014 logo depicted the top of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. In 2014, the newspaper adopted a new logo showing the paper's name over an outline of the Peace Tower roof on a green background. [citation needed]
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Circulation
The Ottawa Citizen's circulation in 2009 was 123,856 copies daily. Its circulation dropped by 26 percent to 91,796 in 2015.[16]
In Spring 2022, the Ottawa Citizen's unduplicated print and digital average weekday audience was 231,000, and its unduplicated average weekly audience was 490,000.[4]
Notable people
- Scott Keir Anderson, editor-in-chief from 1996 to 2007[17]
- Scott Burnside, ice hockey columnist[18]
- Peter Calamai (1943–2019), editorial pages editor[19]
- Randall Denley, long-time Ottawa Citizen writer who retired in 2012[20]
- Bob Ferguson (1931–2014), sports journalist and writer[21]
- Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen writer until 2020[22]
- Charles Gordon, writer and columnist at the Ottawa Citizen from 1974 to 2005[23]
- John Honderich, Ottawa Citizen reporter from 1973 to 1976[24]
- Kelvin Kirk, artist at the Ottawa Citizen[25]
- Eddie MacCabe (1927–1998), journalist, sports editor and writer[26][27]
- Russell Mills, editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen from 1976 to 1984, then publisher[28]
- Gerry Nott, editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2014[28]
- Andrew Potter, editor-in-chief from 2013 to 2016[28]
- Jane Taber, political reporter[29]
- James Travers, editor-in-chief from 1991 to 1996[30]
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