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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Postmedia |
| Editor-in-chief | Adrienne Batra |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | 365 Bloor Street East Toronto,Ontario M4W 3L4 |
| Circulation | 119,048 weekdays 111,515 Saturdays 142,376 Sundays (as of 2015)[1] |
| ISSN | 0837-3175 |
| OCLC number | 66653673 |
| Website | torontosun |
TheToronto Sun is an English-languagetabloid[2]newspaper published daily inToronto,Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of severalSun tabloids published byPostmedia Network. The newspaper's offices are located at Postmedia Place indowntown Toronto.
The newspaper published its first edition in November 1971, after it had acquired the assets of the defunctToronto Telegram, and hired portions of its staff. In 1978, Toronto Sun Holdings and Toronto Sun Publishing were consolidated to form Sun Publishing (later renamedSun Media Corporation). Sun Publishing went on to form similar tabloids to theToronto Sun in other Canadian cities during the late 1970s and 1980s. TheSun was acquired byPostmedia Network in 2015, as a part of the sale of theSun's parent company, Sun Media.
In 1971, the Toronto Sun Publishing was created and purchased the syndication operations and newspaper vending boxes from theToronto Telegram, which ceased operations in the same year. The Toronto Sun also recruited staff from the formerTelegram conservative broadsheet newspaper, and published its first edition on 1 November 1971.[3][4]
PublisherDoug Creighton was originally going to name the new newspaper theToronto News butAndy Donato, who was asked to design the paper's first front page and decided to call the paper theToronto Sun instead. Creighton decided it was too late to change it and renamed the paper.[5]
TheToronto Sun was originally published out of leased space at the Eclipse White Wear Company Building at 322 King Street West.[6] In 1975, the newspaper moved into theToronto Sun Building at 333 King Street East which was eventually expanded to six storeys to house all of the newspaper's operations. In 2010, the building was sold to property development company First Gulf, and the Sun consolidated its operations onto the second floor.[7] It remained in the building until it relocated offices in 2016.
In 1978, Toronto Sun Holdings and Toronto Sun Publishing were consolidated to formSun Publishing. The corporation expanded its tabloid footprint, having established its second tabloid, theEdmonton Sun through a partnership agreement with Edmonton Sun Publishing in 1978. TheAlbertan was acquired in 1980 and made into the company's third tabloid, theCalgary Sun in 1980.[3]
In 1988,The Washington Post described theSun as an example oftabloid journalism.[8]
In 2004, theSun began its annualGeorge Gross/Toronto SunSportsperson of the Year award.[9] By the mid-2000s, the word "The" was dropped from the paper's name and the newspaper adopted its current logo.
The paper acquired a television station fromCraig Media in 2005, which was renamedSUN TV.[10] It was later transformed into theSun News Network until its demise in 2015.[11]
As of the end of 2007, theSun had a Monday through Saturday circulation of approximately 180,000 papers and Sunday circulation of 310,000.
TheSun was acquired byPostmedia in 2015, with its purchase ofSun Media fromQuebecor. Following the acquisition theToronto Sun staff and operations moved to 365 Bloor Street East, the same building that houses theNational Post, in March 2016. However, the two newspapers maintain separate newsrooms.[12]
TheToronto Sun has seen—like mostCanadian daily newspapers—a decline incirculation. Its total circulation dropped by 36 percent to 121,304 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.[13]
TheToronto Sun originally had several editors with various responsibilities, none with the title "editor-in-chief"; however, from 1971 to 1976, Peter Worthington was listed on the newspaper's masthead immediately under the publisher, Doug Creighton.
Former Toronto Telegram employees who launched tabloid on Nov. 1, 1971 and are no longer with us
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