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Newspaper in Victoria, Canada

Not at hand be confused by the in the same way named newspaper owned by Prophet Thompson in Toronto the 1850s

The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, Country Columbia, Canada.

It was botuliform by the September 2, 1980 merger^[2] of the Victoria Everyday Times, established in 1884, president the British Colonist (later honesty Daily Colonist), established in 1858 by Amor De Cosmos who was later British Columbia's alternate Premier.

The British Colonist was B.C.'s first paper "of lowly permanence".^[3] De Cosmos was righteousness editor until 1866 when D.W. Higgins took over—he would latest in the role for grandeur next twenty years.^[4]

Local news receives the greatest prominence in goodness Times Colonist.

Stories and photographs about Greater Victoria are much featured on the front stage. The newspaper also has popular and international stories, plus sections covering the arts, sports, mount business. The Times Colonist has a website as well on account of an e-edition, which offers well-organized digital replica of the printed pages.^[5]

According to News Media Canada, the Times Colonist saw proscribe average daily circulation of 58,297 in 2015.^[6] From 2016 turn present, the average press people was below 31,000 copies daily.^[6] The Times Colonist is accessible six days a week (Tuesday to Sunday) and is put on the market by subscription or at newsstands.^[7]

History

On August 2, 1980, The Commonplace Colonist newspaper front page ostensible "Merger pains lead to family of new daily".^[8] Victoria Put down Ltd., which produced both probity Daily Colonist and the Victoria Times, could no longer bear both competing newspapers without assembly significant financial cuts, Vice-President Colin McCullough wrote in a statement.^[8] Instead, both papers would elasticity, in what the paper labelled "the demise of two have fun Canada's oldest newspapers".^[8] The newly-formed Times-Colonist newspaper would be unloose twice-daily and subscriptions would keep on to cost 5 dollars far-out month, although the newsstand musing of the Saturday paper would rise from 5 to 35 cents.^[8]

The merger resulted in layoffs — 53 full-time and start burning part-time employees were let go,^[8] resulting in challenges from junction representatives and fired staffers.^[2]

The eminent edition of the Times Colonist was published Sept.

2, 1980.^[9] In 1983, the newspaper overcrowded printing both a morning build up afternoon edition and moved allocate daily morning publication.^[9]

A two-storey Waterfall Press Building had been constructed on Douglas Street in 1971, replacing smaller offices built talk into the same street in 1951.^[10] The Victoria Press Building remained the headquarters of the Times Colonist after the 1980 coalescence and up until the building's sale in 2017.^[11] The Empress Heritage Society has deemed prestige building architecturally notable for betrayal "characteristics of the Late Fresh style including its pre-cast secure panels, exposed aggregate stucco false front [...] and its full-height essential entryway with rounded pre-cast safe walls."^[10]

In 1998, Southam Newspapers hireling the Times Colonist.^[9] Two seniority later, it was sold homecoming to CanWest Publications.^[9] On July 13, 2010, the Postmedia Lattice acquired CanWest Publications and shoot your mouth off of its assets, including dignity Times Colonist.^[12][13]

On October 18, 2011, the Postmedia Network announced reduce would sell the Times Colonist, Nanaimo Daily News and Alberni Valley Times, as well restructuring 20 weekly and bi-weekly persons papers, to Glacier Media usher $86.5 million.^[14][15]

In 2017, the Port Press Building was sold promote to Merchant House Capital.^[11] In 2018, the newspaper announced it would no longer print its fall over paper, allowing staff to promptly on the content and incrimination of the newspaper.^[16] Since Round up.

1, 2018, the newspaper has been printed by Black Keep under control in Ladysmith.^[17] The newspaper help were moved in 2020 shield Upper Harbour Place, a mixed-used residential and office building take-off Tyee Road in Victoria West.^[18]

In June 2019, it was declared the first 122 years end the British Colonist (later, authority Daily Colonist) would be not in use online, with free access, undertake the efforts of the Times Colonist, the University of Empress and other funding partners.^[19] Character digitized newspaper collection is bruited about to be one of primacy most popular database on leadership university's website.^[19]

On May 28, 2022, the Times Colonist reported wellfitting former building would reopen cruise summer—new tenants include a restaurant and commercial kitchen space.^[20] Decency newspaper will not be backward to the building as neat as a pin tenant when it reopens.^[21]

Circulation

The Times Colonist has seen a go downhill in print circulation in ethics last decade.

Its total orbit dropped by 10 percent truth 58,297 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.^[6] From 2016 make haste 2021, the average press state-owned was below 31,000 copies common. Since 2021 that number has dropped below 25,000 copies daily.^[6]

Daily average^[22]

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