Women's Post

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Women's Post
Womenspostcover.jpg
Women's Post, April/May 2010
Editor Sarah Lambert
CategoriesGeneral Interest, Business, Lifestyle
FrequencyIntermittently
Publisher Sarah Thomson
First issueJanuary 2002 (as a newspaper)
2008 (as a magazine)
Final issueNovember 2019
Company Independent
CountryCanada
Based inToronto
Language English
Website www.womenspost.ca

The Women's Post was a Canadian English-language magazine, targeted at professional business women, based in Toronto [1] and distributed nationally. The magazine was published every other month, had a circulation of 75,000 with a community of 300,000 in both print and online in 2010. [2] [3]

Contents

History and profile

It was founded as the Women's News, a monthly tabloid format newspaper, in 2002 by Greg and Sarah Thomson and was renamed the Women's Post in 2003. [4] In 2008, it relaunched in a glossy news magazine format which was published weekly. [2] [5] The first issue of the magazine was published on 1 August 2008. [2] In 2009, the magazine's print schedule moved to six times a year with its online version moving from monthly to weekly publication. Since 2010, however, the print version has only been published quarterly.

Thomson moved to Barbados in 2018 to begin and run an ecotourism business. [6] [7]

The magazine's website was last updated in November 2019.

Contributors

The Women's Post regular contributors included Michael Coren, Kirk Lapointe and Russell Wangersky. [8]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Women's Post relaunches as news magazine", Media in Canada, 17 July 2008
  3. "Lone woman runs in race for mayor's chair", Toronto Star, 13 March 2010
  4. "Personal loss opens new door for Post editor", The Publisher, 1 March 2004
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  6. "Sarah Thomson". Linkedin.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  7. "Founder and CEO - Sarah Thomson". Canvasandcave.com.
  8. "Womens Post - Canada's daily magazine for businesswomen". Women's Post. Retrieved 2018-03-08.