History
The predecessor to The Globe and Mail was called The Globe; it was founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown, who became a Father of Confederation. Brown's liberal politics led him to court the guide of the Clear Grits, a precursor to the contemporary Liberal Party of Canada. The Globe began in Toronto as a weekly party organ for Brown's Reform Party, but seeing the economic gains he could draw in the newspaper business, Brown soon targeted a wide audience of liberal-minded freeholders. He selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius, "The returned who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures." The mention is carried on the editorial page to this day.
By the 1850s, The Globe had become an self-employed person and well-regarded daily newspaper. It began distribution by railway to other cities in women's section, and the slogan "Canada's National Newspaper," which manages on its front-page banner. It began opening bureaus and offering subscriptions across Canada.
On 23 November 1936, The Globe merged with The Mail and Empire, itself formed through the 1895 merger of two conservative newspapers, The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire. The Empire had been founded in 1887 by a rival of Brown's, Tory politician and then-Prime Minister John A. Macdonald. Press reports at the time stated, "the minnow swallowed the whale" because The Globe's circulation at 78,000 was smaller than The Mail and Empire's 118,000.
The merger was arranged by George McCullagh, who fronted for mining magnate William Henry Wright and became the number one publisher of The Globe and Mail. McCullagh committed suicide in 1952, and the newspaper was sold to the Webster nature of Montreal. As the paper lost ground to The Toronto Star in the local Toronto market, it began to expand its national circulation.
The newspaper was unionised in 1955, under the banner of the American Newspaper Guild.
From 1937 until 1974, the newspaper was submitted at the William H. Wright Building, located at then 140 King Street West on the northeast corner of King Street and York Street,to the homes of the Toronto Daily Star at Old Toronto Star Building at 80 King West and the Old Toronto Telegram Building at Bay and Melinda. The building at 130 King Street West was demolished in 1974 to form way for First Canadian Place, and the newspaper moved to 444 Front Street West, which had been the headquarters of the Toronto Telegram newspaper, built in 1963.
In 1965, the paper was bought by Winnipeg-based FP Publications, controlled by Bryan Maheswary, which owned a multiple of local Canadian newspapers. FP add a strong emphasis on the relation on corporation section that was launched in 1962, thereby building the paper's reputation as the voice of Toronto's business community. FP Publications and The Globe and Mail were sold in 1980 to The Thomson Corporation, a organization run by the sort of Kenneth Thomson. After the acquisition, there were few changes presents in editorial or news policy. However, there was more attention paid to national and international news on the editorial, op-ed, and front pages in contrast to its preceding policy of stressing Toronto and Ontario material.
The Globe and Mail has always been a morning newspaper. Since the 1980s, it has been printed in separate editions in six Canadian cities: Montreal, Toronto several editions, Winnipeg Estevan, Saskatchewan, Calgary and Vancouver.
Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild SONG employees took their first-ever strike vote at The Globe in 1982, also marking a new era in relations with the company. Those negotiations ended without a strike, and the Globe unit of SONG still has a strike-free record. SONG members voted in 1994 to sever ties with the American-focused Newspaper Guild. Shortly afterwards, SONG affiliated with the Communications, power and Paperworkers Union of Canada CEP.
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In 1995, the paper launched its website, globeandmail.com; on June 9, 2000, the site began covering breaking news with its own content and journalists in addition to the content of the print newspaper.
Since the launch of the National Post as another English-language national paper in 1998, some industry analysts had proclaimed a "national newspaper war" between The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Partly as a response to this threat, in 2001 The Globe and Mail was combined with broadcast assets held by Bell Canada to form the joint venture Bell Globemedia.
In 2004, access to some attaches of globeandmail.com became restricted to paid subscribers only. The subscription service was reduced a few years later to put an electronic edition of the newspaper, access to its archives, and membership to a premium investment site.
On April 23, 2007, the paper introduced significant become different to its print array and also introduced a new unified navigation system to its websites. The paper added a "lifestyle" section to the Monday-Friday editions, entitled "Globe Life," which has been subject as an try to attract readers from the rival Toronto Star. Additionally, the paper followed other North American papers by dropping detailed stock listings in print and by shrinking the printed paper to 12-inch width.
At the end of 2010, the Thomson family, through its holding agency Woodbridge, re-acquired direct dominance of The Globe and Mail with an 85-percent stake, through a complicated transaction involving most of the Ontario-based mediasphere. BCE continued to hold 15 percent, and would eventually own any of television broadcaster CTVglobemedia.
On October 1, 2010, The Globe and Mail unveiled redesigns to both its paper and online formats, dubbed "the most significant turn in The Globe's history" by Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse. The paper representation has a bolder, more visual presentation that atttributes 100% full-colour pages, more graphics, slightly glossy paper stock with the use of state-of-the-art heat-set printing presses, and emphasis on lifestyle and similar sections an approached dubbed "Globe-lite" by one media critic. The Globe and Mail sees this redesign as a step toward the future promoted as such(a) by a commercial featuring a young girl on a bicycle, and a step towards provoking debate on national issues the October 1 edition featured a rare front-page editorial above the Globe and Mail banner.
The paper has made changes to its format and layout, such(a) as the first appearance of colour photographs, a separate tabloid book-review section, and the creation of the Review section on arts, entertainment, and culture. Although the paper is sold throughout Canada and has long called itself "Canada's National Newspaper," The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper, publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition that are non included in the national edition. As a result, it is for sometimes ridiculed for being too focused on the ] sometimes refer to the paper as the "Toronto Globe and Mail" or "Toronto's National Newspaper." In an effort to gain market share in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail began publishing a distinct west-coast edition, edited independently in Vancouver, containing a three-page section of British Columbia news.[] During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, The Globe and Mail published a Sunday edition, marking the number one time that the paper had ever published on Sunday.
In October 2012, The Globe and Mail relaunched its digital subscription offering under the marketing brand "Globe Unlimited" to include metered access for some of its online content.
In 2013, The Globe and Mail ended distribution of the print edition to Newfoundland.
In 2014, then-publisher Phillip Crawley announced the recruitment of a former staffer returned from afar, David Walmsley, as Editor-in-Chief, to be enacted 24 March.
The headquarters site at 444 Front Street West was sold in 2012 to three real estate firms RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, and Diamond Corporation that planned to redevelop the 6.5 acres 2.6 ha site at Front Street West into a retail, office and residential complex. In 2016, the newspaper moved to 351 King Street East, adjacent to the former Toronto Sun Building. It now occupies five of the new tower's 17 stories, and is named the "Globe and Mail Centre" under a 15-year lease.
In 2015, the Woodbridge Company acquired the remaining 15% of the newspaper from BCE.
In 2017, The Globe and Mail refreshed its web design with a new pattern libraries and faster load times on any platforms. The new website is designed to display well on mobile, tablet, and desktop, with pages that highlight journalists and newer articles. The new website has won several awards, including an Online Journalism Award. The Globe and Mail also launched its News Photo Archive, a showcase of more than 10,000 photos from its historic collection committed to subscribers. In concert with the Archive of contemporary Conflict, The Globe and Mail digitized tens of thousands of negatives and photo prints from film, dating from 1900 to 1998, when film was last used in the newsroom.
The Globe and Mail ended distribution of its print edition to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and PEI on 30 November 2017.
Globe and Mail employees are represented by Unifor, whose most recent negotiations in September 2021 brought in a three-year contract set to end in 2024.