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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, 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
Canada's National Newspaper
The January 25, 2013 front page of The Globe and Mail
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Woodbridge Company
Founder(s)George Brown[note 1]
PublisherPhillip Crawley
EditorDavid Walmsley
Founded5 March 1844; 178 years ago (1844-03-05)[note 2]
HeadquartersGlobe and Mail Centre
351 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1L1
Circulation291,571 Daily
354,850 Saturday
(March 2013)[1]
ISSN0319-0714
Websitetheglobeandmail.com

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 Toronto 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. Direct control of the newspaper was reacquired by the Thomson family through its holding company, The Woodbridge Company, in 2010. The Woodbridge Company acquired BCE's remaining stake in the newspaper in 2015.

History

Predecessors and establishment

 
Cover for The Mail and Empire, a newspaper and predecessor to the modern The Globe and Mail.

The predecessor to The Globe and Mail was called The Globe; it was founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown, who became a Father of Confederation. Brown's liberal politics led him to court the support of the Clear Grits, a precursor to the modern Liberal Party of Canada. The Globe began in Toronto as a weekly party organ for Brown's Reform Party, but seeing the economic gains he could make in the newspaper business, Brown soon targeted a wide audience of liberal-minded freeholders. He selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius, "The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures." The quotation is carried on the editorial page to this day.

By the 1850s, The Globe had become an independent and well-regarded daily newspaper. It began distribution by railway to other cities in Ontario shortly after Confederation. At the dawn of the twentieth century, The Globe added photography, a women's section, and the slogan "Canada's National Newspaper," which remains on its front-page banner. It began opening bureaus and offering subscriptions across Canada.

The Mail and Empire was another newspaper that served as The Globe and Mail' s predecessor, having been formed through a merger of two conservative newspapers, The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire in 1895. The Toronto Mail was established in 1872, while the Toronto Empire was founded in 1887 by a rival of Brown's, Tory politician and then-Prime Minister John A. Macdonald.

On 23 November 1936, The Globe merged with The Mail and Empire,[7] The merger was arranged by George McCullagh, who fronted for mining magnate William Henry Wright and became the first publisher of The Globe and Mail. Press reports at the time stated, "the minnow swallowed the whale" because The Globe's circulation (at 78,000) was smaller than The Mail and Empire's (118,000).

1930s–1990s

From 1937 until 1974, the newspaper was produced at the William H. Wright Building, located at then 140 King Street West on the northeast corner of King Street and York Street, close to the homes of the Toronto Daily Star at Old Toronto Star Building at 80 King West and the Old Toronto Telegram Building at Bay and Melinda. The building at 130 King Street West was demolished in 1974 to make way for First Canadian Place.[8]

 
The Globe and Mail staff await news of the D-Day invasion. June 6, 1944.

McCullagh committed suicide in 1952, and the newspaper was sold to the Webster family of Montreal. As the paper lost ground to The Toronto Star in the local Toronto market, it began to expand its national circulation. The newspaper was unionised in 1955, under the banner of the American Newspaper Guild.[9]

In 1965, the paper was bought by Winnipeg-based FP Publications, controlled by Bryan Maheswary, which owned a chain of local Canadian newspapers. FP put a strong emphasis on the Report on Business section that was launched in 1962, thereby building the paper's reputation as the voice of Toronto's business community.

The newspaper moved locations from the William H. Wright Building to 444 Front Street West in 1974. The new location had been the headquarters of the Toronto Telegram newspaper, built in 1963. The Globe and Mail remained in the building until 2016, when it relocated to the Globe and Mail Centre.[8]

FP Publications and The Globe and Mail were sold in 1980 to The Thomson Corporation, a company run by the family of Kenneth Thomson. After the acquisition, there were few changes made in editorial or news policy. However, there was more attention paid to national and international news on the editorial, op-ed, and front pages in contrast to its previous policy of stressing Toronto and Ontario material.[10]

 
Exterior of The Globe and Mail's former building at 444 Front Street in 2016. The newspaper relocated to its new offices in the same year.

The Globe and Mail has always been a morning newspaper. Since the 1980s, it has been printed in separate editions in six Canadian cities: Montreal, Toronto (several editions), Winnipeg (Estevan, Saskatchewan), Calgary and Vancouver.

Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild (SONG) employees took their first-ever strike vote at The Globe in 1982, also marking a new era in relations with the company. Those negotiations ended without a strike, and the Globe unit of SONG still has a strike-free record. SONG members voted in 1994 to sever ties with the American-focused Newspaper Guild. Shortly afterwards, SONG affiliated with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP).[9]

Under the editorship of William Thorsell in the 1980s and 1990s, the paper strongly endorsed the free trade policies of Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The paper also became an outspoken proponent of the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord, with their editorial the day of the 1995 Quebec Referendum mostly quoting a Mulroney speech in favour of the Accord.[11] During this period, the paper continued to favour such socially liberal policies as decriminalizing drugs (including cocaine, whose legalization was advocated most recently in a 1995 editorial) and expanding gay rights.[citation needed]

In 1995, the paper launched its website, globeandmail.com; on June 9, 2000, the site began covering breaking news with its own content and journalists in addition to the content of the print newspaper.[12]

21st century

Since the launch of the National Post as another English-language national paper in 1998, some industry analysts had proclaimed a "national newspaper war" between The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Partly as a response to this threat, in 2001 The Globe and Mail was combined with broadcast assets held by BCE Inc. to form the joint venture Bell Globemedia.

In 2004, access to some features of globeandmail.com became restricted to paid subscribers only. The subscription service was reduced a few years later to include an electronic edition of the newspaper, access to its archives, and membership to a premium investment site.

On April 23, 2007, the paper introduced significant changes to its print design and also introduced a new unified navigation system to its websites.[13] The paper added a "lifestyle" section to the Monday-Friday editions, entitled "Globe Life," which has been described as an attempt to attract readers from the rival Toronto Star. Additionally, the paper followed other North American papers by dropping detailed stock listings in print and by shrinking the printed paper to 12-inch width.

At the end of 2010, the Thomson family, through its holding company Woodbridge, re-acquired direct control of The Globe and Mail with an 85-percent stake, through a complicated transaction involving most of the Ontario-based mediasphere.[14][15] BCE continued to hold 15 percent, and would eventually own all of television broadcaster CTVglobemedia.[16][17]

2010 redesign and relaunch

On October 1, 2010, The Globe and Mail unveiled redesigns to both its paper and online formats, dubbed "the most significant redesign in The Globe's history" by Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse.[18] The paper version has a bolder, more visual presentation that features 100 per cent full-colour pages, more graphics, slightly glossy paper stock (with the use of state-of-the-art heat-set printing presses), and emphasis on lifestyle and similar sections (an approached dubbed "Globe-lite" by one media critic).[19] The Globe and Mail sees this redesign as a step toward the future (promoted as such by a commercial featuring a young girl on a bicycle),[20] and a step towards provoking debate on national issues (the October 1 edition featured a rare front-page editorial above the Globe and Mail banner).[18][21]

The paper has made changes to its format and layout, such as the introduction of colour photographs, a separate tabloid book-review section, and the creation of the Review section on arts, entertainment, and culture. Although the paper is sold throughout Canada and has long called itself "Canada's National Newspaper," The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper, publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition that are not included in the national edition. As a result, it is sometimes ridiculed for being too focused on the Greater Toronto Area, part of a wider humorous portrayal of Torontonians being blind to the greater concerns of the nation. Critics sometimes refer to the paper as the "Toronto Globe and Mail" or "Toronto's National Newspaper."[22][23] In an effort to gain market share in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail began publishing a distinct west-coast edition, edited independently in Vancouver, containing a three-page section of British Columbia news.[citation needed] During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail published a Sunday edition, marking the first time that the paper had ever published on Sunday.[24]

2010–present

In October 2012, The Globe and Mail relaunched its digital subscription offering under the marketing brand "Globe Unlimited" to include metered access for some of its online content.[25]

On September 25, 2012, The Globe and Mail announced it had disciplined high-profile staff columnist Margaret Wente after she admitted to plagiarism.[26] The scandal emerged after University of Ottawa professor and blogger, Carol Wainio, repeatedly raised plagiarism accusations against Wente on her blog.[27]

On October 22, 2012, online Canadian magazine The Tyee published an article criticizing the Globe's "advertorial" policies and design. The Tyee alleged the Globe intentionally blurred the lines between advertising and editorial content in order to offer premium and effective ad space to high-paying advertisers. The Tyee reporter Jonathan Sas cited an 8-page spread in the October 2, 2012, print edition, called "The Future of the Oil Sands," to illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing the spread from regular Globe content.

In 2013, The Globe and Mail ended distribution of the print edition to Newfoundland.[28]

In 2014, then-publisher Phillip Crawley announced the recruitment of a former staffer returned from afar, David Walmsley, as Editor-in-Chief, to be enacted 24 March.[29]

 
In 2016, the newspaper moved its headquarters to the Globe and Mail Centre on King Street East.

The headquarters site at 444 Front Street West was sold in 2012 to three real estate firms (RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, and Diamond Corporation) that planned to redevelop the 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) site at Front Street West into a retail, office and residential complex.[30] In 2016, the newspaper moved to 351 King Street East, adjacent to the former Toronto Sun Building. It now occupies five of the new tower's 17 stories, and is named the "Globe and Mail Centre" under a 15-year lease.[31]

In 2015, the Woodbridge Company acquired the remaining 15 per cent of the newspaper from BCE.[32]

Former Minister Michael Chan filed a libel lawsuit against The Globe and Mail in 2015 for $4.55 million after the paper allegedly "declined to retract their unfounded allegations" suggesting that Chan was "a risk to national security because of his ties to China."[33]

In 2017, The Globe and Mail refreshed its web design with a new pattern library and faster load times on all platforms. The new website is designed to display well on mobile, tablet, and desktop, with pages that highlight journalists and newer articles. The new website has won several awards, including an Online Journalism Award.[34] The Globe and Mail also launched its News Photo Archive, a showcase of more than 10,000 photos from its historic collection dedicated to subscribers. In concert with the Archive of Modern Conflict, The Globe and Mail digitized tens of thousands of negatives and photo prints from film, dating from 1900 to 1998, when film was last used in the newsroom.[35]

The Globe and Mail ended distribution of its print edition to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and PEI on 30 November 2017.[36]

Globe and Mail employees are represented by Unifor, whose most recent negotiations in September 2021 brought in a three-year contract set to end in 2024.[37]

Report on Business

"Report on Business", commonly referred to as "ROB", is the financial section of the newspaper. It is the most lengthy daily compilation of economic news in Canada,[citation needed] and is considered an integral part of the newspaper. Standard ROB sections are typically fifteen to twenty pages, and include the listings of major Canadian, U.S., and international stocks, bonds, and currencies.

Every Saturday, a special "Report on Business Weekend" is released, which includes features on corporate lifestyle and personal finance, and extended coverage of business news. On the last Friday of every month, the Report on Business Magazine is released, the largest Canadian finance-oriented magazine.

Business News Network (formerly ROBtv) is a twenty-four-hour news and business television station, founded by The Globe and Mail but operated by CTV through the companies' relationship with CTVglobemedia.

Top 1000

The Top 1000 is a list of Canada's one thousand largest public companies ranked by profit released annually by the Report on Business Magazine.[38]

Political stance

In the 2011 non-fiction, Canadian sociologist Elke Winter said that the Globe and Mail was considered politically middle-of-the-road to moderately conservative and is less socially liberal than its competitor, the Toronto Star.[39]: 96  Canadian sociologist Elke Winter writes that "While the Globe has probably lost parts of its more conservative and corporate readership to the National Post, it continues to cater to the Canadian political and intellectual elite."[39] According to one 2006 publication, the newspaper was considered an "upmarket" newspaper, in contrast to downmarket newspapers such as the Toronto Sun.[40]: 6 

In federal general elections, The Globe and Mail has endorsed different parties over time. The newspaper endorsed Stephen Harper's Conservative Party in the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections; in the 2015 election, the paper again endorsed the Conservatives but called for the party's leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to step down. In previous elections, the paper endorsed the Liberals (2000, 2004); the Progressive Conservatives (1984, 1988, 1997), a minority government for the Liberals in 1993 ("Let us declare firmly for a minority. We do not trust the Liberals to govern unguarded.").[41] In the 2019 federal election it did not make an endorsement.[42]

While the paper was known as a generally conservative voice of the business establishment in the postwar decades, historian David Hayes, in a review of its positions, has noted the Globe's editorials in this period "took a benign view of hippies and homosexuals; championed most aspects of the welfare state; opposed, after some deliberation, the Vietnam War; and supported legalizing marijuana." A December 12, 1967, Globe and Mail editorial[43] stated, "Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation." On December 21, 1967, then Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau, in defending the government's Omnibus bill and the decriminalization of homosexuality, coined the phrase "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."[44]

The Globe and Mail endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[45]

Notable staff

Editors-in-chief

Editorial board

The editorial board of the newspaper is chaired by the editor-in-chief, who nominates new members as needed. The editorial board controls the overall direction of the newspaper and is given prime billing on the editorial pages. It is the editorial board who endorses political candidates in the run-up to elections. The editorial board's membership list has become a closely guarded secret under the tenure of David Walmsley, but of the following writers in March 2011 under John Stackhouse:

Key people (present)

Masthead

  • David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief
  • Sinclair Stewart, Deputy Editor
  • Angela Pacienza, Executive Editor
  • Gary Salewicz, Editor, Report on Business
  • Christine Brousseau, Assistant Managing Editor, News
  • Dennis Choquette, Managing Editor, ROB
  • Matt Frehner, Head of Visuals
  • Tony Keller, Editorial Page Editor
  • Natasha Hassan, Opinion Editor
  • Sylvia Stead, Public Editor[46]

Foreign bureaus

The Decibel Podcast

  • Tamara Khandaker, Host
  • Kasia Mychajlowycz, Senior Podcast Producer
  • Madeline White, Producer
  • David Crosbie, Audio Editor[48]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Brown founded the earliest predecessor to The Globe and Mail, The Globe. The Toronto Mail was another predecessor newspaper founded by Thomas Patteson. The Toronto Empire was another predecessor newspaper founded by John A. Macdonald. The merger of The Globe and The Mail and Empire was arranged by George McCullagh and was financed by William Henry Wright.
  2. ^ The following date was when The Globe published its first edition. The Globe later merged with The Mail and Empire to form The Globe and Mail on 23 November 1936.

References

  1. ^ "Total Circ for Canadian Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. March 31, 2013. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
  2. ^ "Circulation Report: Daily Newspapers 2015" November 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Newspapers Canada, June 2016.
  3. ^ Clement, Wallace (1996). Understanding Canada: Building on the New Canadian Political Economy. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780773515031.
  4. ^ . Straits Times. Singapore. January 11, 2009. Archived from the original on January 30, 2009.
  5. ^ "What's behind the shake up at 'Canada's newspaper of record'?". rabble.ca. June 2, 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  6. ^ Brian Duignan. "The Globe and Mail". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  7. ^ "The Globe and Mail Inc.: Private Company Information – Businessweek". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  8. ^ a b Torontoist (April 19, 2008). "Historicist: The Old Lady of Melinda Street".
  9. ^ a b "Our History".
  10. ^ Walter I. Romanow and Walter C. Soderlund, "Thomson Newspapers' Acquisition of 'The Globe and Mail:' A Case Study of Content Change," Gazette: The International Journal for Mass Communication Studies (1988) 41#1 pp 5-17.
  11. ^ Globe and Mail, Oct 30, A12
  12. ^ Canada (June 17, 2010). . Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  13. ^ Canada (April 21, 2007). . Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
  14. ^ globeandmail.com: "BCE-CTV deal remakes media landscape", 10 Sep 2010
  15. ^ globeandmail.com: "Bell ushers in new era with CTV deal", 11 Sep 2010
  16. ^ Canada (September 10, 2010). "Bell to acquire 100% of Canada's No.1 media company CTV". BCE. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  17. ^ "Torstar completes first stage of CTVglobemedia sale". Toronto Star. January 4, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
  18. ^ a b "A new Globe — in print and online", Editor's Note from The Globe and Mail, 10/1/2010
  19. ^ "Globe and Mail unveils bold design" October 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, from cbcnews.ca, 10/1/2010
  20. ^ "The Globe commercial and the promise of the future", from The Globe and Mail, 10/1/2010
  21. ^ Q&A with Editorial Board chair John Geiger from globeandmail.com, 10/1/2010
  22. ^ Staples, David (June 4, 2015). "Staples: Toronto sports writer sets out to be Edmonton's villain, ends up a bit of a joke". The Edmonton Journal. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  23. ^ Macklem, Katherine (June 11, 2001). "A dimming Sun". Maclean's. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  24. ^ "The Globe's Olympic coverage". The Globe and Mail. February 12, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  25. ^ "Globe Unlimited press release". The Globe and Mail. October 22, 2012
  26. ^ "Globe takes action on allegations against columnist Margaret Wente". The Globe and Mail. September 25, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  27. ^ "Margaret Wente affair: A timeline of plagiarism allegations". The Toronto Star. September 25, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  28. ^ Jon Tattrie (August 21, 2017). "Stop the presses: Globe and Mail ends print edition in Maritimes". CBC.ca. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  29. ^ "The Globe and Mail appoints David Walmsley as editor-in-chief". March 19, 2014 – via The Globe and Mail.
  30. ^ "Globe and Mail's head office site sold to three real estate firms". November 12, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  31. ^ "Globe and Mail to be lead tenant of new Toronto office tower". September 18, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  32. ^ Pellegrini, Christina (August 14, 2015). "BCE Inc sells 15% stake in Globe and Mail stake to Thomson family company". Financial Post.
  33. ^ "Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan sues Globe and Mail for $4.55 million | The Star". thestar.com. August 7, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  34. ^ "Globe and Mail wins four Online Journalism Awards, including prize for general excellence". October 7, 2017.
  35. ^ "The Globe and Mail News Photo Archive". July 1, 2017.
  36. ^ March Montgomery (December 1, 2017). "Another internet blow to print newspapers". Radio Canada International. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  37. ^ "Globe and Mail workers ratify new three-year deal, averting strike". Cision. September 16, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  38. ^ "The Globe and Mail - Report on Business Magazine" – via The Globe and Mail.
  39. ^ a b Winter, Elke (2011). Us, Them and Others: Pluralism and National Identities in Diverse Societies. University of Toronto Press.
  40. ^ Russell, Nicholas (2006). Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism (2 ed.). UBC Press.
  41. ^ Federal election: Globe editorial endorsements from 1984 to now, The Global & Mail (October 16, 2015).
  42. ^ "Public editor: No endorsement during this federal election campaign was a good thing". Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  43. ^ "Unlocking the locked step of law and morality". The Globe and Mail; Dec 12, 1967; pg. 6
  44. ^ "CBC Archives".
  45. ^ "Dear America: Please don't vote for Donald Trump". Toronto: The Globe and Mail. November 2, 2016.
  46. ^ "Contact Us". The Globe and Mail.
  47. ^ "Foreign Correspondents". The Globe and Mail.
  48. ^ "How to listen to the Decibel, a daily podcast from the Globe and Mail".

Further reading

  • David Hayes, Power and Influence: The Globe and Mail and the News Revolution (Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1992)
  • "The Globe and Mail" in The Canadian Encyclopedia, Second Edition, Volume II (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1988)
  • World Press Review online, "Canada: Newspapers and Magazines Online"
  • Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 138–42

External links

  Media related to Globe and Mail at Wikimedia Commons

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  • Report on Business Magazine

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The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015 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 MailCanada s National NewspaperThe January 25 2013 front page of The Globe and MailTypeDaily newspaperFormatBroadsheetOwner s The Woodbridge CompanyFounder s George Brown note 1 PublisherPhillip CrawleyEditorDavid WalmsleyFounded5 March 1844 178 years ago 1844 03 05 note 2 HeadquartersGlobe and Mail Centre351 King Street EastToronto OntarioM5A 1L1Circulation291 571 Daily354 850 Saturday March 2013 1 ISSN0319 0714Websitetheglobeandmail wbr comThe 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 Toronto 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 Direct control of the newspaper was reacquired by the Thomson family through its holding company The Woodbridge Company in 2010 The Woodbridge Company acquired BCE s remaining stake in the newspaper in 2015 Contents 1 History 1 1 Predecessors and establishment 1 2 1930s 1990s 1 3 21st century 1 3 1 2010 redesign and relaunch 1 3 2 2010 present 2 Report on Business 2 1 Top 1000 3 Political stance 4 Notable staff 4 1 Editors in chief 4 2 Editorial board 4 3 Key people present 4 3 1 Masthead 4 3 2 Foreign bureaus 4 3 3 The Decibel Podcast 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory EditPredecessors and establishment Edit Cover for The Mail and Empire a newspaper and predecessor to the modern The Globe and Mail The predecessor to The Globe and Mail was called The Globe it was founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown who became a Father of Confederation Brown s liberal politics led him to court the support of the Clear Grits a precursor to the modern Liberal Party of Canada The Globe began in Toronto as a weekly party organ for Brown s Reform Party but seeing the economic gains he could make in the newspaper business Brown soon targeted a wide audience of liberal minded freeholders He selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures The quotation is carried on the editorial page to this day By the 1850s The Globe had become an independent and well regarded daily newspaper It began distribution by railway to other cities in Ontario shortly after Confederation At the dawn of the twentieth century The Globe added photography a women s section and the slogan Canada s National Newspaper which remains on its front page banner It began opening bureaus and offering subscriptions across Canada The Mail and Empire was another newspaper that served as The Globe and Mail s predecessor having been formed through a merger of two conservative newspapers The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire in 1895 The Toronto Mail was established in 1872 while the Toronto Empire was founded in 1887 by a rival of Brown s Tory politician and then Prime Minister John A Macdonald On 23 November 1936 The Globe merged with The Mail and Empire 7 The merger was arranged by George McCullagh who fronted for mining magnate William Henry Wright and became the first publisher of The Globe and Mail Press reports at the time stated the minnow swallowed the whale because The Globe s circulation at 78 000 was smaller than The Mail and Empire s 118 000 1930s 1990s Edit From 1937 until 1974 the newspaper was produced at the William H Wright Building located at then 140 King Street West on the northeast corner of King Street and York Street close to the homes of the Toronto Daily Star at Old Toronto Star Building at 80 King West and the Old Toronto Telegram Building at Bay and Melinda The building at 130 King Street West was demolished in 1974 to make way for First Canadian Place 8 The Globe and Mail staff await news of the D Day invasion June 6 1944 McCullagh committed suicide in 1952 and the newspaper was sold to the Webster family of Montreal As the paper lost ground to The Toronto Star in the local Toronto market it began to expand its national circulation The newspaper was unionised in 1955 under the banner of the American Newspaper Guild 9 In 1965 the paper was bought by Winnipeg based FP Publications controlled by Bryan Maheswary which owned a chain of local Canadian newspapers FP put a strong emphasis on the Report on Business section that was launched in 1962 thereby building the paper s reputation as the voice of Toronto s business community The newspaper moved locations from the William H Wright Building to 444 Front Street West in 1974 The new location had been the headquarters of the Toronto Telegram newspaper built in 1963 The Globe and Mail remained in the building until 2016 when it relocated to the Globe and Mail Centre 8 FP Publications and The Globe and Mail were sold in 1980 to The Thomson Corporation a company run by the family of Kenneth Thomson After the acquisition there were few changes made in editorial or news policy However there was more attention paid to national and international news on the editorial op ed and front pages in contrast to its previous policy of stressing Toronto and Ontario material 10 Exterior of The Globe and Mail s former building at 444 Front Street in 2016 The newspaper relocated to its new offices in the same year The Globe and Mail has always been a morning newspaper Since the 1980s it has been printed in separate editions in six Canadian cities Montreal Toronto several editions Winnipeg Estevan Saskatchewan Calgary and Vancouver Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild SONG employees took their first ever strike vote at The Globe in 1982 also marking a new era in relations with the company Those negotiations ended without a strike and the Globe unit of SONG still has a strike free record SONG members voted in 1994 to sever ties with the American focused Newspaper Guild Shortly afterwards SONG affiliated with the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada CEP 9 Under the editorship of William Thorsell in the 1980s and 1990s the paper strongly endorsed the free trade policies of Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney The paper also became an outspoken proponent of the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord with their editorial the day of the 1995 Quebec Referendum mostly quoting a Mulroney speech in favour of the Accord 11 During this period the paper continued to favour such socially liberal policies as decriminalizing drugs including cocaine whose legalization was advocated most recently in a 1995 editorial and expanding gay rights citation needed In 1995 the paper launched its website globeandmail com on June 9 2000 the site began covering breaking news with its own content and journalists in addition to the content of the print newspaper 12 21st century Edit Since the launch of the National Post as another English language national paper in 1998 some industry analysts had proclaimed a national newspaper war between The Globe and Mail and the National Post Partly as a response to this threat in 2001 The Globe and Mail was combined with broadcast assets held by BCE Inc to form the joint venture Bell Globemedia In 2004 access to some features of globeandmail com became restricted to paid subscribers only The subscription service was reduced a few years later to include an electronic edition of the newspaper access to its archives and membership to a premium investment site On April 23 2007 the paper introduced significant changes to its print design and also introduced a new unified navigation system to its websites 13 The paper added a lifestyle section to the Monday Friday editions entitled Globe Life which has been described as an attempt to attract readers from the rival Toronto Star Additionally the paper followed other North American papers by dropping detailed stock listings in print and by shrinking the printed paper to 12 inch width At the end of 2010 the Thomson family through its holding company Woodbridge re acquired direct control of The Globe and Mail with an 85 percent stake through a complicated transaction involving most of the Ontario based mediasphere 14 15 BCE continued to hold 15 percent and would eventually own all of television broadcaster CTVglobemedia 16 17 2010 redesign and relaunch Edit On October 1 2010 The Globe and Mail unveiled redesigns to both its paper and online formats dubbed the most significant redesign in The Globe s history by Editor in Chief John Stackhouse 18 The paper version has a bolder more visual presentation that features 100 per cent full colour pages more graphics slightly glossy paper stock with the use of state of the art heat set printing presses and emphasis on lifestyle and similar sections an approached dubbed Globe lite by one media critic 19 The Globe and Mail sees this redesign as a step toward the future promoted as such by a commercial featuring a young girl on a bicycle 20 and a step towards provoking debate on national issues the October 1 edition featured a rare front page editorial above the Globe and Mail banner 18 21 The paper has made changes to its format and layout such as the introduction of colour photographs a separate tabloid book review section and the creation of the Review section on arts entertainment and culture Although the paper is sold throughout Canada and has long called itself Canada s National Newspaper The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition that are not included in the national edition As a result it is sometimes ridiculed for being too focused on the Greater Toronto Area part of a wider humorous portrayal of Torontonians being blind to the greater concerns of the nation Critics sometimes refer to the paper as the Toronto Globe and Mail or Toronto s National Newspaper 22 23 In an effort to gain market share in Vancouver The Globe and Mail began publishing a distinct west coast edition edited independently in Vancouver containing a three page section of British Columbia news citation needed During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver The Globe and Mail published a Sunday edition marking the first time that the paper had ever published on Sunday 24 2010 present Edit In October 2012 The Globe and Mail relaunched its digital subscription offering under the marketing brand Globe Unlimited to include metered access for some of its online content 25 On September 25 2012 The Globe and Mail announced it had disciplined high profile staff columnist Margaret Wente after she admitted to plagiarism 26 The scandal emerged after University of Ottawa professor and blogger Carol Wainio repeatedly raised plagiarism accusations against Wente on her blog 27 On October 22 2012 online Canadian magazine The Tyee published an article criticizing the Globe s advertorial policies and design The Tyee alleged the Globe intentionally blurred the lines between advertising and editorial content in order to offer premium and effective ad space to high paying advertisers The Tyee reporter Jonathan Sas cited an 8 page spread in the October 2 2012 print edition called The Future of the Oil Sands to illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing the spread from regular Globe content In 2013 The Globe and Mail ended distribution of the print edition to Newfoundland 28 In 2014 then publisher Phillip Crawley announced the recruitment of a former staffer returned from afar David Walmsley as Editor in Chief to be enacted 24 March 29 In 2016 the newspaper moved its headquarters to the Globe and Mail Centre on King Street East The headquarters site at 444 Front Street West was sold in 2012 to three real estate firms RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust and Diamond Corporation that planned to redevelop the 6 5 acres 2 6 ha site at Front Street West into a retail office and residential complex 30 In 2016 the newspaper moved to 351 King Street East adjacent to the former Toronto Sun Building It now occupies five of the new tower s 17 stories and is named the Globe and Mail Centre under a 15 year lease 31 In 2015 the Woodbridge Company acquired the remaining 15 per cent of the newspaper from BCE 32 Former Minister Michael Chan filed a libel lawsuit against The Globe and Mail in 2015 for 4 55 million after the paper allegedly declined to retract their unfounded allegations suggesting that Chan was a risk to national security because of his ties to China 33 In 2017 The Globe and Mail refreshed its web design with a new pattern library and faster load times on all platforms The new website is designed to display well on mobile tablet and desktop with pages that highlight journalists and newer articles The new website has won several awards including an Online Journalism Award 34 The Globe and Mail also launched its News Photo Archive a showcase of more than 10 000 photos from its historic collection dedicated to subscribers In concert with the Archive of Modern Conflict The Globe and Mail digitized tens of thousands of negatives and photo prints from film dating from 1900 to 1998 when film was last used in the newsroom 35 The Globe and Mail ended distribution of its print edition to New Brunswick Nova Scotia and PEI on 30 November 2017 36 Globe and Mail employees are represented by Unifor whose most recent negotiations in September 2021 brought in a three year contract set to end in 2024 37 Report on Business Edit Report on Business redirects here For the Institute for Supply Management s economic report see ISM Report On Business Report on Business commonly referred to as ROB is the financial section of the newspaper It is the most lengthy daily compilation of economic news in Canada citation needed and is considered an integral part of the newspaper Standard ROB sections are typically fifteen to twenty pages and include the listings of major Canadian U S and international stocks bonds and currencies Every Saturday a special Report on Business Weekend is released which includes features on corporate lifestyle and personal finance and extended coverage of business news On the last Friday of every month the Report on Business Magazine is released the largest Canadian finance oriented magazine Business News Network formerly ROBtv is a twenty four hour news and business television station founded by The Globe and Mail but operated by CTV through the companies relationship with CTVglobemedia Top 1000 Edit See also List of largest public companies in Canada by profit The Top 1000 is a list of Canada s one thousand largest public companies ranked by profit released annually by the Report on Business Magazine 38 Political stance EditIn the 2011 non fiction Canadian sociologist Elke Winter said that the Globe and Mail was considered politically middle of the road to moderately conservative and is less socially liberal than its competitor the Toronto Star 39 96 Canadian sociologist Elke Winter writes that While the Globe has probably lost parts of its more conservative and corporate readership to the National Post it continues to cater to the Canadian political and intellectual elite 39 According to one 2006 publication the newspaper was considered an upmarket newspaper in contrast to downmarket newspapers such as the Toronto Sun 40 6 In federal general elections The Globe and Mail has endorsed different parties over time The newspaper endorsed Stephen Harper s Conservative Party in the 2006 2008 and 2011 elections in the 2015 election the paper again endorsed the Conservatives but called for the party s leader Prime Minister Stephen Harper to step down In previous elections the paper endorsed the Liberals 2000 2004 the Progressive Conservatives 1984 1988 1997 a minority government for the Liberals in 1993 Let us declare firmly for a minority We do not trust the Liberals to govern unguarded 41 In the 2019 federal election it did not make an endorsement 42 While the paper was known as a generally conservative voice of the business establishment in the postwar decades historian David Hayes in a review of its positions has noted the Globe s editorials in this period took a benign view of hippies and homosexuals championed most aspects of the welfare state opposed after some deliberation the Vietnam War and supported legalizing marijuana A December 12 1967 Globe and Mail editorial 43 stated Obviously the state s responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well ordered society It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation On December 21 1967 then Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau in defending the government s Omnibus bill and the decriminalization of homosexuality coined the phrase There s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation 44 The Globe and Mail endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run up for the 2016 U S presidential election 45 Notable staff EditEditors in chief Edit George McCullagh 1936 1952 Oakley Dalgleish 1952 1963 R Howard Webster 1963 1965 James L Cooper 1965 1974 Richard S Malone 1974 1978 Richard Doyle 1978 1983 Norman Webster 1983 1989 William Thorsell 1989 1999 Richard Addis 1999 2002 Edward Greenspon 2002 2009 John Stackhouse 2009 2014 David Walmsley 2014 present Editorial board Edit The editorial board of the newspaper is chaired by the editor in chief who nominates new members as needed The editorial board controls the overall direction of the newspaper and is given prime billing on the editorial pages It is the editorial board who endorses political candidates in the run up to elections The editorial board s membership list has become a closely guarded secret under the tenure of David Walmsley but of the following writers in March 2011 under John Stackhouse John Stackhouse Editor in chief John G Geiger Gerald Owen Sean Fine journalist Marina Jimenez de la Flor Lisa Priest Key people present Edit Masthead Edit David Walmsley Editor in Chief Sinclair Stewart Deputy Editor Angela Pacienza Executive Editor Gary Salewicz Editor Report on Business Christine Brousseau Assistant Managing Editor News Dennis Choquette Managing Editor ROB Matt Frehner Head of Visuals Tony Keller Editorial Page Editor Natasha Hassan Opinion Editor Sylvia Stead Public Editor 46 Foreign bureaus Edit Adrian Morrow Washington bureau chief Eric Reguly European bureau Rome Mark MacKinnon European bureau London Paul Waldie European bureau London Nathan Vanderklippe China bureau Beijing Geoffrey York Africa bureau Johannesburg 47 The Decibel Podcast Edit Tamara Khandaker Host Kasia Mychajlowycz Senior Podcast Producer Madeline White Producer David Crosbie Audio Editor 48 See also Edit Canada portal Journalism portalMedia in Canada List of media outlets in Toronto List of newspapers in Canada List of the largest Canadian newspapers by circulationNotes Edit Brown founded the earliest predecessor to The Globe and Mail The Globe The Toronto Mail was another predecessor newspaper founded by Thomas Patteson The Toronto Empire was another predecessor newspaper founded by John A Macdonald The merger of The Globe and The Mail and Empire was arranged by George McCullagh and was financed by William Henry Wright The following date was when The Globe published its first edition The Globe later merged with The Mail and Empire to form The Globe and Mail on 23 November 1936 References Edit Total Circ for Canadian Newspapers Alliance for Audited Media March 31 2013 Archived from the original on April 7 2013 Retrieved June 21 2013 Circulation Report Daily Newspapers 2015 Archived November 30 2016 at the Wayback Machine Newspapers Canada June 2016 Clement Wallace 1996 Understanding Canada Building on the New Canadian Political Economy McGill Queen s University Press p 343 ISBN 9780773515031 Globe and Mail to cut jobs Straits Times Singapore January 11 2009 Archived from the original on January 30 2009 What s behind the shake up at Canada s newspaper of record rabble ca June 2 2009 Retrieved January 17 2010 Brian Duignan The Globe and Mail Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved August 16 2022 The Globe and Mail Inc Private Company Information Businessweek Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2012 Retrieved April 13 2012 a b Torontoist April 19 2008 Historicist The Old Lady of Melinda 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Mail Report on Business Magazine via The Globe and Mail a b Winter Elke 2011 Us Them and Others Pluralism and National Identities in Diverse Societies University of Toronto Press Russell Nicholas 2006 Morals and the Media Ethics in Canadian Journalism 2 ed UBC Press Federal election Globe editorial endorsements from 1984 to now The Global amp Mail October 16 2015 Public editor No endorsement during this federal election campaign was a good thing Retrieved January 2 2021 Unlocking the locked step of law and morality The Globe and Mail Dec 12 1967 pg 6 CBC Archives Dear America Please don t vote for Donald Trump Toronto The Globe and Mail November 2 2016 Contact Us The Globe and Mail Foreign Correspondents The Globe and Mail How to listen to the Decibel a daily podcast from the Globe and Mail Further reading EditDavid Hayes Power and Influence The Globe and Mail and the News Revolution Key Porter Books Toronto 1992 The Globe and Mail in The Canadian Encyclopedia Second Edition Volume II 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