Brantford Expositor

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Brantford Expositor
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Postmedia
EditorKim Novak
Founded1852
Circulation 15,349 weekdays
16,048 Saturdays(as of 2011) [1]
Website www.brantfordexpositor.ca

The Brantford Expositor is an English language newspaper based in Brantford, Ontario and owned by Postmedia. It provides the readers with coverage of local news, sports and events to the community as well as coverage of provincial, national and international news.

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History

The Expositor has been the primary source of news and advertising information for the city of Brantford and County of Brant for over 160 years. The newspaper has published continuously without interruption.

Present day

The Expositor has one of the highest levels of readership for a daily newspaper in the province of Ontario, reaching over 70% of all adults 18 and over, in the coverage area.

The Brantford Expositor is published 6 days a week Monday to Saturday, and has a daily paid circulation of 20,000. The paper serves Brantford, as well as Paris, Burford, and the rest of Brant County.

The Brantford Expositor also publishes Your Brant Connection, a free weekly community paper (delivered every Thursday), which has a distribution of 52,500 to all homes in the Brantford and Brant County area.

In 2010, the newspaper moved from 53 Dalhousie Street in downtown Brantford, to a business park at 195 Henry Street but at the current date, April 4, 2022, has no local office. The Newspaper is printed in Hamilton at the Hamilton Spectator

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References

  1. Paid circulation cited in "Daily Newspaper Circulation Statement for the 12 Month Period Ended December 2011". Toronto: Canadian Circulations Audit Board . Retrieved April 2, 2012.