Canada's National Newspaper | |
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | The Woodbridge Company |
Founder(s) | George Brown[note 1] |
Publisher | Andrew Saunders |
Editor | David Walmsley |
Founded | 5 March 1844[note 2] |
Headquarters | Globe and Mail Centre 351 King Street East Toronto, Ontario M5A 1L1 |
Circulation | 65,749 Daily 117,955 Saturday (as of 2022)[1] |
ISSN | 0319-0714 |
OCLC number | 61312660 |
Website | theglobeandmail |
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays,[2] although it falls slightly behind the Toronto Star in overall weekly circulation because the Star publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the Globe does not. The Globe and Mail is regarded by some as Canada's "newspaper of record".[3][4][5][6]
The Globe and Mail's predecessors, The Globe and The Mail and Empire were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of The Toronto Mail and The Empire. In 1936, The Globe and The Mail and Empire merged to form The Globe and Mail. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast assets held by BCE Inc. to form the joint venture Bell Globemedia. In 2010, direct control of the newspaper was reacquired by the Thomson family through its holding company, The Woodbridge Company. The Woodbridge Company acquired BCE's remaining stake in the newspaper in 2015.
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