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Torstar Inc.
Type Public (TSX: TS.B)
Founded 1958
Headquarters Toronto, Ontario
Key people Robert Prichard - President
Industry Newspaper Communications
Products Newspapers
Website torstar.com

Torstar Corporation (TSX: TS.B) is an independently-owned Canadian broadly based media company that is named after its principal holding, the Toronto Star daily newspaper. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec John Robert Stobo Prichard, OC, OOnt, MBA, LLB, LLM, PhD (born 1949) is a Canadian Lawyer President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Toronto Star is Canada 's highest-circulation newspaper though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario.

Its core businesses includes publishing daily and community newspapers, speciality publications, digital properties, Syndicate content, as well as women’s fiction and a 20% stake in CTVglobemedia. CTVglobemedia (often abbreviated "CTVgm" or CGM is one of Canada 's largest private media companies.

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History

Torstar was founded after the Ontario government passed a law barring the provisions of late-Toronto Star owner Joseph Atkinson's will from being enacted. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Joseph E Atkinson ( December 23, 1865 &ndash May 8, 1948) was a Canadian Newspaper editor and activist. In Common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the Testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her Property Atkinson had bequeathed the newspaper to a charitable organization he had founded. The Conservative provincial government of George Drew (a long time enemy of the Liberal-oriented Star) passed a law banning charitable organizations from operating profitable entities such as newspapers. The Ontario PC Party, formally known as the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (in french Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario) is a Right-of-centre George Alexander Drew, PC, CC, QC ( May 7, 1894 - January 4, 1973) was a Canadian conservative The Ontario Liberal Party is a Centrist provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. Rather than sell the newspaper, the trustees of the Atkinson Foundation bought out the Star privately and founded Torstar as a private corporation.

Operations

The principal activities of Torstar are the publication of newspapers and women’s fiction. Torstar operates in two main holding under Newspapers and Book Publishing.

The Newspapers division is the largest component and consists of newspaper, commercial printing and Internet products and services. The company operates 2 main newspaper divisions, Metroland Media Group and the Star Media Group. Metroland Media Group (formerly Metroland Printing Publishing & Distributing) is the publisher of daily and weekly community newspapers in Ontario as well as Star Media Group is a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd The second group is Book Publishing which is also known as Harlequin. Harlequin ( Arlecchino in Italian, Arlequin in French) is the most popular of the Zanni or comic servant characters from

Newspapers

The newspaper division is split between two main subsidies: Metroland Media Group and Star Media Group. Metroland Media Group (formerly Metroland Printing Publishing & Distributing) is the publisher of daily and weekly community newspapers in Ontario as well as Star Media Group is a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd

Star Media Group

Star Media Group is a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. Star Media Group is a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd It was created on September 11th, 2006 as part of restructuring of the companies assets.

Star Media Group includes the flagship Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper, Torstar Syndication Services a syndication service of content for various publications, Torstar Media Group Television which is a film/video production unit and includes ShopTV Canada, as well as TMG Production and TMG Entertainment. The Toronto Star is Canada 's highest-circulation newspaper though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario. Torstar Syndication Services is an operating division of Star Media Group led by the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper Torstar Media Group Television is a subsidy of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd ShopTV Canada is a Canadian English language Cable television home shopping channel.

Metroland Media Group

Metroland Media Group is Torstar's largest division. Metroland Media Group (formerly Metroland Printing Publishing & Distributing) is the publisher of daily and weekly community newspapers in Ontario as well as Metroland consists of daily and community newspapers, printing services, flyer distributing and digtial operations. Metroland operates over 130 daily and community publications. Metroland publishes over 100 community newspapers including former CityMedia Group publications. Metroland Media Group (formerly Metroland Printing Publishing & Distributing) is the publisher of daily and weekly community newspapers in Ontario as well as Metroland also has as a number of specialty publications and operates several consumer shows. It also published the alternative newspaper Eye Weekly. Eye Weekly is a free weekly Newspaper in Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Torstar Digital became the digital arm of Star Media Group on Feb 1, 2005. Torstar Digital also owns toronto. com which averages 8 million page views and 615,000 visitors. In October 2005, Torstar announced a joint venture with LiveDeal. com, a US-based company, to create LiveDeal Canada. LiveDeal Canada is an online classifieds provider that provides Canadians with a cost-effective, easy-to-use and efficient marketplace for buying and selling goods. Torstar digital also lookes after all newspaper and publication websites including thestar. com.

Metroland will also manage Torstar’s interest in the jointly owned Sing Tao Daily, the largest Chinese language newspaper in Canada. The Sing Tao Daily ( is Hong Kong 's second largest Chinese language Newspaper. In March 2005, Torstar, CanWest and Metro International (each holding a 33. Metro International is a Swedish media company based in Luxembourg that publishes the Metro newspapers 3% interest) announced their new joint venture to launch Metro Vancouver (March 14th) and Metro Ottawa (March 30th) as well as the Toronto edition of Metro, the largest free daily newspaper in Canada.

Transit Television Network LLC

Transit Television Network, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is the largest out-of-home digital network providing information, entertainment and advertising to transit riders across North America.

Book publishing

Torstar operates a book publishing division called Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, a major publisher of women’s fiction romance novels. Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a Toronto, Ontario-based company that is the world's leading publisher of series romance and Women's fiction. A romance novel is a literary Genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries It offers a variety of women’s fiction genres in many different formats including mass-market paperback, trade paperback, hardcover, in multiple channels such as retail outlets, direct-to consumer, and e-commerce in over 94 international markets.

Other investments

Past Investments

Torstar recently launched a weekly celebrity-based magazine called Scoop, which folded one year later.

Though newspapers have been accused of missing the internet "revolution", in the early 1990s, Torstar became a pioneering investor in the early internet via its purchase of shares in JCI Technologies which created Jobmatch, Automatch and Realtymatch (an MLS search service). In 1995 JCI was selected to be one of the first content providers selected for Microsoft's MSN network prior to MSN's launch in the mid 1990s. By early 1996, JCI potentially had a dominant position in Canada's on-line classified ads with Southam also taking a stake in the company. Shortly after Conrad Black's Hollinger took over of Southam, financing for JCI was pulled and the investment failed just prior to the internet boom of the late 1990s.

Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors of Torstar are:

External links

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