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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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:
| 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 ... |
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| 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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