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Ottawa Citizen
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The February 1, 2016, front page of the Ottawa Citizen
TypeDaily (no print edition on Sundays or Mondays) [1] [2]
Format Broadsheet, digital
Owner(s) Postmedia Network
EditorNicole Feriancek [3]
Founded1845;179 years ago (1845) (as the Bytown Packet)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters1101 Baxter Road
Ottawa, Ontario
K2C 3M4
Circulation 231,000 weekdays, 490,000 weekly for print and digital [4] (as of 2022)vividata
ISSN 0839-3222
Website ottawacitizen.com

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [5]

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History

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]

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Former logo

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.

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ottawa Citizen cuts jobs, ends Sunday print edition". CTV News. May 29, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Notice to Ottawa Citizen readers". Ottawa Citizen. September 21, 2022.
  3. ↑ Crawford, Blair (February 22, 2023). "Nicole Feriancek named editor-in-chier of the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Sun". Ottawa Citizen.
  4. 1 2 vividata. "Newspaper Topline Readership" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Ottawa Citizen".
  6. ↑ Cobb, Chris (July 16, 1992). "Comedy of Errors". Ottawa Citizen. p. A2. Retrieved July 16, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  7. 1 2 Boswell, Randy (January 20, 2020). "A window into history: A trip back to the Citizen's fascinating beginnings, 175 years ago".
  8. 1 2 Cross, Michael. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Friel, Henry James".
  9. ↑ Pilon, Henri. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Robert Bell".
  10. 1 2 Bruce, Charles (1968). News and the Southams . Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. pp. 70–72.
  11. 1 2 Parry, David (April 9, 1977). "To buy dying paper he needed $4,000". Edmonton Journal. p. 105. Retrieved July 16, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Potter, Jessica (October 17, 2014). "The Ottawa Citizen". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  13. ↑ "Hollinger sells 28 Ontario newspapers for $220 million". CBC News. July 31, 2001.
  14. ↑ "Fired publisher named Nieman Fellow Archived January 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine ". Harvard Gazette . 2002.
  15. ↑ Archived June 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ "Daily Newspaper Circulation Data". News Media Canada . Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Ottawa Citizen's top editor leaves to become CanWest VP". CBC News. November 15, 2007.
  18. ↑ Boswell, Randy (January 23, 2019). "Remembering Peter Calamai: Journalist, Teacher and 'Advocate for Science, Literacy and Journalistic Professionalism' (1943-2019)". Carleton University . Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  19. ↑ "Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past". The Globe and Mail. May 18, 2014.
  20. ↑ Scanlan, Wayne (June 7, 1996). "There ain't nothing like an old-time sports writer". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 15.
  21. ↑ "Terry Glavin". Ottawa Citizen.
  22. ↑ Duffy, Andrew (June 30, 2023). "Former Ottawa Citizen columnist one of four Ottawans appointed to the Order of Canada".
  23. ↑ Lederman, Marsha (February 6, 2022). "Former Toronto Star publisher John Honderich, among 'last of the lions' of Canadian journalism, dead at 75". The Globe and Mail.
  24. ↑ Archdeacon, Tom (April 27, 2012). "UD player first 'Mr. Irrelevant' in NFL Draft".
  25. ↑ Chwialkowska, Luiza (May 24, 1998). "Eddie MacCabe: A glimpse it the city's soul". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 7.
  26. ↑ Brown, Dave (May 23, 1998). "Eddie MacCabe: A local legend lost". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 27.; Brown, Dave (May 23, 1998). "MacCabe did it well or didn't bother with it at all". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario. p. 28.
  27. 1 2 3 "Former Citizen editors-in-chief on their proudest moments, greatest disappointments". Ottawa Citizen. November 28, 2020.
  28. ↑ "Jane Taber". Board of Governors, Carleton University.
  29. ↑ Duffy, Andrew (November 25, 2020). "Editors-in-chief: The Citizen newsroom has been led by the formidable and the quirky". Ottawa Citizen.

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