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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 ...
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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.
He has helped organize Idle No More Winnipeg events [7] and he frequently speaks on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC and APTN. [8] In 2018, he won Canadian columnist of the year at the National Newspaper Awards for his bi-weekly columns in The Winnipeg Free Press and is a featured member of the "Power Panel" on CBC's Power & Politics.
Uptown was purchased in 2005 by FP Newspapers, owners of the Winnipeg Free Press. Little about Uptown has changed since the acquisition, except for a relocation from its previous Exchange District offices to the suburban St. James area. In 2012 Uptown was transformed into a weekly supplement to the Winnipeg Free Press.
In its early days, the newspaper's offices were located at 290 Garry Street in downtown Winnipeg, around the corner from the offices that had housed the defunct Winnipeg Tribune. In 1983, the newspaper moved to a building in suburban Inkster Industrial Park, [10] presaging a similar move by the Winnipeg Free Press some years later.
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.