Cape Breton Post

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Cape Breton Post
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Front page of the June 5, 2020 edition
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) SaltWire Network
EditorCarl Fleming
Language English
Headquarters255 George Street
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1P 6K6
Circulation 22,245 weekdays
21,869 Saturdays in 2010 [1]
ISSN 0839-4970
Website www.capebretonpost.com

The Cape Breton Post is the only daily newspaper published on Cape Breton Island. Based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, it specializes in local coverage of news, events, and sports from communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and the counties of Inverness, Richmond and Victoria. [2]

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On April 13, 2017, Transcontinental announced that it had sold all of its newspapers in Atlantic Canada to SaltWire Network, a newly formed parent company of The Chronicle Herald . [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. Canadian Circulations Audit Board Circulation Report for January to December 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2012. (registration required)
  2. "Our Team". capebretonpost.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
  3. "Chronicle Herald buys all Atlantic Canadian Transcontinental papers". CBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  4. "Transcontinental sells The Guardian, Journal Pioneer". CBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  5. "The Chronicle Herald acquires Transcontinental Inc.'s newspapers, news websites and four printing plants in Atlantic Canada". The Chronicle Herald. Retrieved 13 April 2017.