The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail
Canada's National Newspaper
The January 25, 2013 front page of The Globe and Mail
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Woodbridge Company
Founder(s)George Brown[note 1]
PublisherAndrew Saunders
EditorDavid Walmsley
Founded5 March 1844 (1844-03-05)[note 2]
HeadquartersGlobe and Mail Centre
351 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1L1
Circulation65,749 Daily
117,955 Saturday (as of 2022)[1]
ISSN0319-0714
OCLC number61312660
Websitetheglobeandmail.com

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays,[2] although it falls slightly behind the Toronto Star in overall weekly circulation because the Star publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the Globe does not. The Globe and Mail is regarded by some as Canada's "newspaper of record".[3][4][5][6]

The Globe and Mail's predecessors, The Globe and The Mail and Empire were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of The Toronto Mail and The Empire. In 1936, The Globe and The Mail and Empire merged to form The Globe and Mail. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast assets held by BCE Inc. to form the joint venture Bell Globemedia. In 2010, direct control of the newspaper was reacquired by the Thomson family through its holding company, The Woodbridge Company. The Woodbridge Company acquired BCE's remaining stake in the newspaper in 2015.


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  1. ^ "The-Globe and Mail Newspaper MediaKit 2023" (PDF). globelink.ca. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 11, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  2. ^ "About Us". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  3. ^ Clement, Wallace (1996). Understanding Canada: Building on the New Canadian Political Economy. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 343. ISBN 9780773515031.
  4. ^ "Globe and Mail to cut jobs". Straits Times. Singapore. January 11, 2009. Archived from the original on January 30, 2009.
  5. ^ "What's behind the shake up at 'Canada's newspaper of record'?". rabble.ca. June 2, 2009. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  6. ^ Brian Duignan. "The Globe and Mail". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on April 25, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2022.

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