The Record (Sherbrooke)
Circulation 4,049 daily (as of 2011)[1] | | |
Website | www.sherbrookerecord.com |
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The Record is the only daily (Monday–Friday)
Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the Sherbrooke Daily Record, it is one of the two last surviving English-language daily newspapers in the French-speaking province, the other being the much larger
For the past several years, The Record has been a daily
"Talk", or "Talk of the Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's service area.
Future Canadian
For years The Record was owned by Black's
Fire
In January 1999, a fire broke out in The Record's offices, which were located on rue Delorme in Sherbrooke. The building and its contents, including the newspapers computers and presses, suffered heavy losses. The newspaper was temporarily moved to a location in nearby Lennoxville without its own press. A replacement press was eventually purchased and in June 2000 the newspaper moved into its current location on rue Galt Est, in Sherbrooke.
Former editors
- Leonard S. Channell, 1897–1899
- Victor E. Morrill, 1899–1909
- Harry Logie, 1909–1919
- Gordon Miller, 1919–1930
- Alfred Wood, 1930–1935
- Gordon Miller, 1935–1937
- J.K. Flaherty, ?-?
- Albert Reid, ?-?
- Don McMahon, ?-?
- Douglas Amaron, ?-?
- Gerald McDuff, ?-?
- George McFarlane, ?-?
- Arnold Agnew, ?-1959
- John Cranford, 1959–1963
- Hugh Doherty, 1963–1968
- Leonard Ryan, 1968–1969
- Leonard Coates, 1969–1970
- William Duff, 1970
- Paul Waters, 1971
- Ivy Weir, [nee Pankovitch], 1971
- C. Scott Abbott, 1971–1972
- Lewis Harris, 1972–1973
- Alex Radmanovich, 1973–1974
- Hugh Tait, 1974
- Barbara Verity, [Stevenson], 1974–1977
- James Duff, 1977–1981
- Charles Bury, 1981–1996
- Sharon McCully, 1996-2006
- Eleanor Brown, 2006-?
- Jennifer Young, ? -2009
- Michael McDevitt, (interim editor 2009) (assistant editor 2010)
- Daniel Coulombe, 2010-2014
- John Edwards, 2014- 2015
- Matthew McCully, Gordon Lambie assoc editors 2015- 2019
- Matthew McCully 2019 - present
See also
References
- Audit Bureau of Circulations e-Circ datafor the six months ending September 30, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2012.