Cornwall Standard Freeholder
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| Cornwall Standard-Freeholder | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Osprey Media |
| Publisher | Milton Ellis |
| Founded | 1846 |
| Headquarters | Cornwall, Ontario |
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| Website: www.standard-freeholder.com | |
The Cornwall Standard Freeholder is a daily newspaper based in Cornwall, Ontario. It has been in circulation for many years, and continues to be the newspaper with the largest circulation inside the Montreal - Ottawa - Kingston triangle. The newspaper is owned by Quebecor through its Osprey Media division.
[edit] History
The Standard-Freeholder has been the newspaper of record for Cornwall and the counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry since 1846.
The current newspaper began as two publications. The Freeholder, which was founded by the first premier of Ontario, John Sandfield Macdonald, and the Standard.
The two newspapers were amalgamated in 1932 and the first issue was published on April 30 of that year. The Standard-Freeholder became a daily newspaper on April 1, 1941 and now has a circulation of nearly 15,000 copies.
[edit] Present day
The Standard-Freeholder remains the only daily newspaper in the triangle between Brockville, Ottawa and Montreal to this day. In 2006, the Standard-Freeholder was nominated for the first time for a National Newspaper Award for a series of articles published the day after an announcement the city's oldest and most prominent employer, Domtar Fine Papers Inc., would be shutting down its paper mill operation for good. Current editorial staff includes: Managing Editor Andrew Carroll; City Editor Todd Lihou; Associate Editor Claude McIntosh; Sports Editor Kevin Gould; Sports Reporter Todd Hambleton Staff Reporters Kathleen Hay, Kevin Lajoie, Greg Pereenboom, Michael Peeling, David Nesseth, Trevor Pritchard and Megan Harrison.
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