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The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis.
Beginning in 2022, Canstar reduced the number of titles it operates from six to two with the creation of the East and West editions of the Free Press Community Review. Coverage areas of the new publications are divided by the Red River, which flows south to north through the city of Winnipeg. Circulation of the new publications was 215,000+ in ...
Salton later became the radio operator for the Winnipeg Free Press' radio station that operated until 1923 . [32] On January 23, 2012, the CRTC ruled that campus radio stations in Canada could no longer use students as on-air DJs, and instead would follow the definition of a community radio station.
Winnipeg, curiously, is one of the very few cities in Canada or the United States where a new daily newspaper emerged after the death of the No. 2 underdog. Aside from the free Metro daily publications, outside of Toronto, Winnipeg is the only other city in English Canada with two separately owned competing metropolitan daily newspapers.
Winnipeg has two daily newspapers: the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Sun. [188] There are also several ethnic weekly newspapers. [189] Radio broadcasting in Winnipeg began in 1922; [190] by 1923, government-owned CKY held a monopoly position that lasted until after the Second World War.
John Wesley Dafoe (8 March 1866 – 9 January 1944) was a Canadian journalist.From 1901 to 1944 he was the editor of the Manitoba Free Press, [2] later named the Winnipeg Free Press.
Merrick was a prominent voice in calling for a landfill search for the victims of the 2022 Winnipeg serial killings remains, [14] with Niigaan Sinclair writing for the Winnipeg Free Press describing Merrick as the "primary political voice demanding a search of the Prairie Green landfill". [7]
Southam Inc., also known as Southam News, Southam Newspapers, and Southam Newswire, was a media company and news agency in Canada.Company founder William Southam started as a paper boy for the London Free Press and eventually went on to acquire many prominent daily newspapers across Canada such as the Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, The Province and Winnipeg Tribune and ...