Globe and Mail
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The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto.
The paper was founded as The Globe in 1844 by George Brown, who was later a Father of Confederation. Brown selected as the motto for the editorial page a quotation from Junius, "The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures."
Through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the newspaper grew from a local Toronto affair to a national one, adopting the masthead slogan "Canada's National Newspaper" in the process.
In 1936, after a merger with the Mail and Empire (ironically, the Mail was the paper of Brown's arch-rival, Sir John A. MacDonald), the Globe became the Globe and Mail. In 1962, the paper added its popular Report on Business section.
Owned by the Kenneth Thomson family, in 2001 the paper was sold to BCE Inc., also owners of the CTV network. The network and paper are now run under the Bell Globemedia division, and several reporters from one of the outlets frequently appear on the other.
Editorially, the Globe and Mail has historically been seen as a conservative and business-oriented paper. Since the 1998 launch of rival conservative paper the National Post, the Globe has been seen as increasingly centrist or even liberal; however, no media studies have yet examined whether the editorial thrust of the paper has actually changed (as opposed to the zeitgeist changing around it) and recent anecdotal observations are typically made in comparison to the Post. Possibly due to this competition the paper has made other changes such as the introduction of colour photographs and the creation of the "Review" section on Arts and Entertainment.
Though portrayed as a national paper and sold throughout Canada, the Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper. As such it is sometimes popularly ridiculed as being too focused on the GTA, a sentiment which could be seen as part of a wider humourous notion of Torontonians sometimes being blind to the wider concerns of the nation (a similar criticism is sometimes applied to the New York Times).
Regular contributors
- Christie Blatchford
- John Doyle
- Allan Fotheringham
- Marcus Gee
- Heather Mallick
- Rex Murphy
- Spider Robinson
- Rick Salutin
- Jeffrey Simpson
- Russell Smith
- Norman Spector
- William Thorsell
- Margaret Wente
- Hugh Winsor
- Jan Wong
- Ken Wiwa
