The Sudbury Star is a Canadian daily regional newspaper published in Sudbury, Ontario. It is owned by the media company, Postmedia. It is the largest daily paper in Northeastern Ontario by circulation.

History

The Sudbury Star began as a daily in January 1909 as the Northern Daily Star, in competition with the city's established daily Sudbury Journal, but it was in immediate financial trouble and folded within just six months. W.E. Mason Equipment was created to take over management of the paper,

In 1935, Mason launched the city's first commercial radio station, CKSO. The Nugget was almost immediately sold in an employee buyout, but the Sudbury Star remained under the ownership of Mason's estate until 1950, when J. R. Meakes, Mason's successor as publisher and general manager, bought the paper with co-investors George Miller, Jim Cooper and Bill Plaunt. The same investment group launched CKSO-TV, the city's first television station and the first television station in Canada not owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in 1953. Meakes remained as publisher and general manager until his retirement in 1975. The federal trade practices commission ruled in Thomson's favour. to Osprey Media in 2001, and to Sun Media in 2007. In 2015 Postmedia Network acquired Sun Media.

In October 2013 the paper moved from its longtime home at 33 MacKenzie Street in Sudbury to new offices at 128 Pine Street. In 2020, the paper moved again, to an office building on Regent Street in the Lily Creek neighbourhood.

The current managing editor of the Sudbury Star is Don MacDonald, who assumed the role in 2014.

Notable staff

  • David Griffin, journalist, Olympic athlete, and Royal Canadian Air Force officer
  • Don Scott, author and journalist

See also

  • List of newspapers in Canada

References

  • Sudbury Star