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Great West Newspapers Limited Partnership is a Canadian publisher of weekly newspapers in the province of Alberta. It is headquartered in St. Albert, Alberta. The company is jointly owned by Glacier Media, a Vancouver-based publisher, and the local family business Jamison Newspapers, which operates Great West's properties. == History == Great West was founded in 1995 as a partnership between Southam Inc. and the Jamison family, which had owned the ''St. Albert Gazette'' since 1966 (the newspaper itself had been founded in 1961). The Jamisons had run the paper as a family business but prided themselves on professional journalism; the ''Gazette'' staff produced a daily newspaper for the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. The ''Gazette'' had first partnered with Southam in 1988, when the Jamisons began printing suburban editions of ''Neighbours'', a publication of the Southam-owned ''Edmonton Journal'', as well as some colour comics and television inserts for the ''Journal'' and ''Calgary Herald''. Over the next 15 years, Great West grew its holdings to 20 weekly newspapers across the province. In 1997, Southam was purchased by Hollinger Inc. In 2005, Jamison Newspapers bought out its partner but sold a 50% stake in Great West to Glacier Media. The company built a $25 million office and printing plant in Campbell Business Park. In August, 2012, the company announced that it struck a deal with Postmedia to print the Edmonton Journal. The Journal will begin printing at Great West's facility in the late spring of 2013. 〔 Great West swapped newspapers with Black Press in 2010, gaining the ''Rocky Mountain Outlook'' in Canmore, Alberta, and unloading the ''Red Deer Express'', a weekly that competed with Black's daily ''Red Deer Advocate''. The swap was part of a larger deal that saw Glacier sell many of its British Columbia newspapers to Black. Glacier continued to operate a competing award-winning weekly in St. Albert, the ''Saint City News'', until 2010, when the paper was sold to Great West. Great West closed the ''Saint City News'' in 2011, citing a decline in advertising revenue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great West Newspapers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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