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The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper. In 2011, it was Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, although also the one with the second-largest decline in readership between 2007 and 2011 among Canada's top 25 newspapers. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. ==History== The ''Star'' (originally known as the ''Evening Star'' and then the ''Toronto Daily Star'') was created in 1892 by striking ''Afternoon News'' printers and writers, led by future Mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founder, along with another future mayor, Jimmy Simpson. The paper did poorly in its first few years. It prospered under Joseph "Holy Joe" Atkinson, editor from 1899 until his death in 1948. Atkinson had a social conscience. He championed many causes that would come to be associated with the modern welfare state: old age pensions, unemployment insurance, and health care. The Government of Canada Digital Collections website describes Atkinson as "a ‘radical’ in the best sense of that term…. The ''Star'' was unique among North American newspapers in its consistent, ongoing advocacy of the interests of ordinary people. The friendship of Atkinson, the publisher, with Mackenzie King, the prime minister, was a major influence on the development of Canadian social policy."〔(Bienvenue au site Web Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada website ). Collectionscanada.gc.ca (2012-08-30). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.〕 Atkinson became the controlling shareholder of the ''Star''. The ''Toronto Daily Star'' was frequently criticized for practising the yellow journalism of its era. For decades, the paper included heavy doses of crime and sensationalism, along with advocating social change. From 1910 to 1973, the ''Star'' published a weekend supplement, the ''Star Weekly''. Its early opposition and criticism of the Nazi regime〔''More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics'', http://vhec.org/1936_olympics/the_nazi_state/a_canadian_observer, Accessed September 3, 2011.〕 saw the paper become one of the first North American papers to be banned in Germany.〔 https://www.christianaction.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22, Accessed September 3, 2011.〕 In 1971, the newspaper was renamed ''The Toronto Star'' and moved to a modern office tower at One Yonge Street by Queens Quay. The original ''Star'' Building at 80 King Street West was demolished to make room for First Canadian Place. The new building originally housed the paper's presses. In 1992, the printing plant was moved to the Toronto Star Press Centre at the Highway 407 & 400 interchange in Vaughan.〔(Torstar’s Vaughan Press Centre celebrates 20th anniversary )〕 In September 2002, the logo was changed, and "The" was dropped from the papers. During the 2003 blackout, the ''Star'' printed the paper at a press in Welland, Ontario. Until the mid-2000s, the front page of the ''Toronto Star'' had no advertising. On May 28, 2007, the ''Star'' unveiled a redesigned paper that features larger type, narrower pages, fewer and shorter articles, renamed sections, more prominence to local news, and less so to international news, columnists, and opinion pieces. However, on January 1, 2009, The ''Star'' reverted to its previous format. ''Star P.M.'', a free newspaper in PDF format that could be downloaded from the newspaper's website each weekday afternoon, was discontinued in October 2007, thirteen months after its launch. 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「Toronto Star」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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