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The CCNA keeps track of the ownership within its membership. Currently, of the 771 community newspapers that are CCNA members, 446 are corporately owned by one of 12 major corporate owners.

Major Corporate Owners:
("Major" is defined as owning 10 or more community newspapers in CCNA)

  • Black Press Group Ltd.
  • Bowes Publishers Limited
  • Brunswick News Inc.
  • CanWest Global Communications Corp.
  • G.T.C. Transcontinental Group Ltd.
  • Glacier Ventures International Corp.
  • Great West Newspapers, LP.
  • Metroland Media Group Ltd.
  • Multimedia Nova Corporation
  • Performance Printing Ltd.
  • Shield Newspaper Group
  • Sun Media Inc.

» View the membership ownership chart

This chart shows number of titles by province. Clicking on a corporation name, or the number of holdings, will give a detailed list of the titles that are owned.

This chart shows the ownership of CCNA members only, and therefore may not reflect the complete ownership by corporations if its holdings are not in the CCNA membership. The CCNA tries its best to keep this information current, but this chart should be used as a guide only.


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» View the membership ownership graph

This pie-graph shows the percentage of titles owned by corporation. Mousing over a pie slice with display the corporation name, and clicking on a slice will give a detailed list of the titles that are owned.

This graph shows the ownership of CCNA members only, and therefore may not reflect the complete ownership by corporations if its holdings are not in the CCNA membership. The CCNA tries its best to keep this information current, but this chart should be used as a guide only.


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» Download Snapshot 2005 (PDF 141kB)

A review of corporate ownership is also available for as part of Snapshot 2005. In addition to ownwership information, Snapshot 2005 provide other interest and informative statistics about the industry.

 


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Here are the latest articles on ownership from CCNA's Industry News archives:

Torstar to increase ownership in Multimedia Nova
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Torstar Corporation agreed on Friday, June 27, to purchase 590,631 Class A voting shares in Toronto's Multimedia Nova for $236,253. Multimedia Nova is the ...

 
CRTC announces new media ownership rules
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

New media ownership rules announced on January 15 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will restrict future cross-media ...

 
Transcontinental Media acquires Corriere Italiano
Monday, January 07, 2008

Transcontinental Media announced in December that it had acquired two Quebec weekly newspapers, including Montreal's Italian-language weekly newspaper Corriere ...

 
Springhill-Parrsboro Record sold to Transcontinental
Monday, November 26, 2007

Transcontinental Media announced on Friday that they have acquired the Springhill-Parrsboro Record from Advocate Media Inc.

 
CanWest MediaWorks acquires five papers
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. announced on November 19, 2007, that they have acquired five publications from Windsor-Essex County in Ontario.

 

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