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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Metroland Media Group (Torstar Corporation) |
| Publisher | Donna Luelo |
| Editor | Jim Poling |
| Founded | 1878 |
| Headquarters | 160 King Street East Kitchener,Ontario N2G 4E5 |
| Circulation | 53,403 weekdays 52,683 Saturdays (as of 2015)[1] |
| ISSN | 0824-5150 |
| Website | www |
TheWaterloo Region Record (formerlyThe Record) is the dailynewspaper coveringWaterloo Region,Ontario, Canada, including the cities ofKitchener,Waterloo andCambridge, as well as the surrounding area. Since December 1998, theRecord has been published byMetroland Media Group, a subsidiary ofTorstar Corporation. On May 26, 2020, Torstar, agreed to be acquired by NordStar Capital, a private investment firm; the deal was expected to close by year end.[2]
TheRecord traces its history back to the founding of theDaily News, first published on February 9, 1878, by former Methodist preacher Peter Moyer at a printing press located at King and Ontario streets in Berlin (now Kitchener). This would be the city's first daily newspaper, and Canada's first bilingual daily as it was supplemented with a full page of German news for the first eight months of its life.
In 1896, at the time of Moyer's death, three newspapers existed in the city of Berlin: theBerlin Daily Telegraph, theBerlin Daily Record and Moyer'sDaily News. Due to financial pressures, by 1897 the latter two had merged to become theBerlin News Record, run by William (Ben) Uttley, publisher of theBerlin Daily Record and local historian. Retiring in October 1919, Uttley sold the newspaper to W.J. Motz andWilliam Daum Euler, who renamed itThe Kitchener Daily Record.
In 1922, theDaily Record took over theDaily Telegraph, leaving it the only newspaper of significant size serving the community. On April 2, 1929, the newspaper moved from 49 King Street West to what was at the time considered the most modern printing operation in the country (using a 24-page press) at 30 Queen Street North. Motz and Euler fought over control of the newspaper for the next two decades, with the former eventually winning majority interest. Euler sold his stock toSoutham Company in 1953, leaving Motz's son, John E. Motz, the sole director of the rapidly growing daily.
On January 1, 1948, John Motz changed the name of the newspaper once again, toThe Kitchener-Waterloo Record (to mark the occasion of Waterloo's designation as a city), a name which remained until the change toThe Record, in 1994. During this period the 24-page press would be replaced first by a 48-page press in the 1950s, a 96-page press in 1961–1962, and a 128-page press in 1973. In 1962, it was the first company in Canada to use plastic sleeves to protect newspapers bound for rural addresses.
Ownership had been in the hands of the Motz family for generations until 1990, when the paper was sold to Southam in a $90 million deal.Conrad Black'sHollinger Inc. took a controlling interest in Southam during the period when it ownedThe Record. The paper was acquired bySun Media in 1998, but Sun itself was bought byQuebecor soon after, andThe Record was sold toTorstar before the end of the year. The administrative records and photographic negatives of the paper amassed prior to the Sun Media acquisition are maintained at theUniversity of Waterloo Library.[3][4]
On June 3, 2002,The Record switched from being an afternoon newspaper to morning one.
In January 2005, the paper was moved to Market Square on King Street East in Kitchener's downtown core.[5] It had been based on Fairway Road in Kitchener since May 1973. The paper was printed at that location on aletterpress system until 2000, when printing was moved tooffset presses at parent company Torstar'sVaughan Press Centre inVaughan. Printing later moved to presses of sister papers inHamilton andGuelph, and then back to Vaughan from time to time. As of 2014, the Record is usually printed at the Star-ownedHamilton Spectator. On May 24, 2019, Torstar Corporation announced it will close its Hamilton Spectator printing operations on or about August 24, 2019. The printing work (including printing of the Record) performed at the Hamilton facility will be transferred toTC Transcontinental Printing, various Torstar-owned facilities, and other external printers.[6]
The Record building on Fairway Road in Kitchener was demolished in September 2005.
On March 11, 2008, the name was changed to theWaterloo Region Record, returning the community name to thenameplate.[7]
In early 2018, the company announced that it would set up a paywall on its website.[8] Consumers who do not pay the fee to subscribe will be allowed to read only seven articles per month. An article published byCBC News indicated that this strategy has not been successful for some newspapers. TheNew York Times has a million subscribers but the publication has an international cachet that makes it a "must-read", especially in the U.S. whereFake news has been widespread.[9]
TheWaterloo Region Record has seen like mostCanadian daily newspapers a decline incirculation. Its total circulation dropped by 14 percent to 53,283 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.[10]
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The Record has won theMichener Award for meritorious public service in journalism four times: 1978, 1981 (shared), 1983, and 2001. It received the 2001 award for breaking the story on theRIM Park financing fiasco.
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In November 2005, theRecord began publishingGrand, a regional lifestyle magazine. It followed that with the March 2006 launch ofRex, a business magazine covering Waterloo Region andGuelph.Most magazine, for women over 40, was launched in the spring of 2008.Rex was scheduled to suspend publication after the April 2009 issue. All magazines are distributed independently of the newspaper.
Both theCambridge Times and theRecord are owned and published byMetroland Media Group but keep separate newsrooms and operations.
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