История канадской газеты "Торонто Стар" на английском языке

Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper

Adzhitarova L.

General information

TYPE: Daily newspaper

FORMAT: Broadsheet

OWNER: Toronto Star Newspapers Limitted

PUBLISHER: Jordan Bitove

EDITOR: Anne Marie Owens

FOUNDED: 1892(as Evening Star)

POLITICAL ALIGNMENT: Social liberalism

HEADQUARTERS: 1 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

WEBSITE: www.thestar.com

The Star (originally known as the Evening Star and then the Toronto Daily Star) was created in 1892 by striking Toronto News printers and writers, led by future Mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founder, along with another future mayor, Jimmy Simpson.

Chronology

NOVEMBER 3, 1892

The first edition of The Evening Star appeared with the slogan A Paper For The People, on Page 1.

JUNE, 1893

Publication was suspended in the Great Panic of 1893, which caused unemployment and closures across the U.S. and Canada.

DECEMBER 13, 1899

Then a rising young journalist, a 34-year-old Joseph E. Atkinson was appointed editor on Dec. 13, 1899, and things promptly began to improve.

JANUARY 24, 1900

The paper's name was changed to The Toronto Daily Star.

FEBRUARY, 1929

With 650 employees and a circulation of 175,000, The Star had become the largest circulation newspaper in Canada.

JANUARY 3, 1938

Daily newspaper prices in Toronto rose to three cents. 1942 The Atkinson Charitable Foundation was incorporated.

APRIL 12, 1949

The Star became the first Canadian newspaper to sign a contract with the newspaper guild.

NOVEMBER 6, 1971

The paper's name was changed to The Toronto Star.

OCTOBER 3, 1983

Home delivery of the morning paper began.

NOVEMBER 2, 1992

The Press Centre was officially opened.

Editorial position

The Star covers "a spectrum of opinion that is best described as urban and Central Canadian" in character. The Star is generally centrist and centre-left. The paper has aligned itself over the years with the progressive "Atkinson principles" named for publisher Joseph E. Atkinson, who was editor and publisher of the paper for 50 years. These principles included social justice and social welfare provision, as well as individual rights and civil liberties. In 1984, scholar Atkinson's son Joseph Story Atkinson said, "From its inception in 1892, the Star has been a champion of social and economic reform, a defender of minority rights, a foe of discrimination, a friend of organized labor and a staunch advocate of Canadian nationhood."

Another of the "Atkinson principles" has been a "strong, united and independent Canada"; in a 1927 editorial, the paper wrote, "We believe in the British connection as much as anybody does but on a self-respecting basis of equality, of citizenship, and not on the old basis of one country belonging to the other."

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