Vancouver Courier

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Vancouver Courier
Vancouver Courier Logo
Type Weekly/Bi-weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner CanWest Global Communications
Publisher Peter Ballard
Editor Mick Maloney
Founded 1908
Language English
Price Free
Headquarters 1574 West 6th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2
Flag of Canada Canada
Circulation 265,000[1]
ISSN 1195-731X
Website: www.vancourier.com/

The Vancouver Courier is a Canadian semiweekly local newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia by CanWest Global Communications. Currently, it is Canada's largest distributed community newspaper,[2] with a weekly distribtuion of 265,000.[1] The circulation estimate includes The Vancouver Courier, The Vancouver Courier Downtown, and the Vancouver Courier Westside, and The Vancouver Courier Eastside on Wednesdays. Delivered to homes the paper is distributed from UBC to the Vancouver proper boundary at Boundary Road.[2]

The newspaper began as an independent in 1908 as the Eburne News. Within the last ten years its ownership has changed three times. First by the national Southam chain, then by Hollinger, and finally CanWest. It expanded from being a neighbourhood newspaper to its current city-wide circulation area after acquiring the Vancouver Echo and the West End Times.[3]

The paper has been named twice, "Best Community Newspaper in B.C." and was the second runner-up in the Canadian Community Newspaper Association's general excellence competition.[4]

Unlike most community newspapers, which feature several news stories on their front pages, the Courier's front page almost always features a single, lengthy feature that runs over several pages. The paper also frequently publishes material on local Vancouver history, usually written by Lisa Smedman. Notable contributors include Kevin Potvin and Allen Garr. The poet Earle Birney worked at the paper in the mid-1920s as a summer reporter and editor.

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In an article reporting on the Essjay controversy at Wikipedia on March 9, 2007, the newspaper erroneously claimed that

"Wikipedia's entry for the Vancouver Courier describes the paper as 'Canada's foremost publication on Rashes, Groin Pulls and Goiters, with a readership consisting mostly of interpretive dance instructors, grumpy looking women in power suits and former city employees let go under mysterious circumstances.'"[5]

Taken from the tongue-in-cheek 'Kudos and Kvetches' section, the comments falsely quote Wikipedia where no such edit was made.

On Wednesday, May 30, 2007, Wikipedia and the WikiProject Vancouver made the front page of the Courier. [6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Vancouver Courier. Villagelynx Media Ltd. (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  2. ^ a b General Newspaper Information. CanWest MediaWorks Limited Partnership (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  3. ^ The Vancouver Courier. Van Net Newspapers. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
  4. ^ About Us. CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. (Wednesday, March 14, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  5. ^ "Encyclopedia browned", Vancouver Courier. Retrieved on 2007-04-25. 
  6. ^ The Wiki Way. Vancouver Courier (May 30, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-30.

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