Woodstock Sentinel-Review

Woodstock Sentinel Review

The front page of The Sentinel-Review on July 12, 2013
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Postmedia
Editor Bruce Urquhart
Founded Sept. 11, 1886
Language English
Headquarters 16 Brock Street
Woodstock, Ontario
N4S 3B4
Website www.woodstocksentinelreview.com

The Woodstock Sentinel-Review is a local daily newspaper that serves Woodstock, Ontario and Oxford County in the Canadian province of Ontario.

It is published five days per week, Monday-Friday, in coordination with the Oxford Shopping News and the Oxford Review. The Sentinel-Review is owned by the Postmedia Network corporation. The newspaper is printed at The Hamilton Spectator, which prints several Postmedia Network newspapers, and is designed in Barrie, Ontario. The Sentinel-Review was formerly printed at The London Free Press for more than 10 years until their print production moved to Hamilton after Postmedia announced The London Free Press' printing press operations would be closed and outsourced to Hamilton.[1] The Sentinel-Review's last London print date was Oct. 6, 2016 and their first printing out of Hamilton was Oct. 10, 2016.

History

In one form or another, The Sentinel-Review has been published since the 1850s and has gone by several names, including The Daily Sentinel-Review, The Weekly Sentinel-Review, The Woodstock Herald, The Woodstock Monarch, The Woodstock Times, The Woodstock Review and The Woodstock Sentinel. Although having gone through different names over its lengthy history, it was originally two newspapers. The Woodstock Sentinel began on Jan. 1, 1854, while the Woodstock Review first appeared Oct. 1, 1870. The two papers would merge about 16 years later on Saturday, Sept. 11, 1886 with George Robson Pattullo serving as the first editor when it was a weekly and his brother, Andrew Pattullo, after it became a daily.[2] The Sentinel-Review, which was formerly part of the Sun Media chain of newspapers that was a division of Quebecor Media, was purchased by Postmedia Network in October 2014[3] with the sale being approved Competition Bureau in March 2015.[4][5] Archived editions of The Sentinel-Review, or one of its predecessors, starting from the 1850s to the present can be found online at the Woodstock Public Library and Oxford Historical Association.[6][7]

Readership

The Sentinel-Review is available throughout Oxford County, but primarily in Woodstock with newspapers also being available and delivered to Tavistock, Thamesford, Ingersoll, Beachville, Embro, Norwich, Innerkip, Burgessville, Tillsonburg, Plattsville and other communities in the Oxford County. In the 2000s The Sentinel-Review began publishing stories, photos and videos online on its website as a new avenue to reach readers in the changing era of journalism. From the time they began the crossover into the digital age, The Sentinel-Review has had a presence in multiple social media forums such as Twitter, Facebook, the Internet, live chats and other methods to further reach local, national and international readers. Since those early online days, they have maintained a constant digital presence with thousands of unique page views.[8]

Newsroom

The Norwich Gazette and The Ingersoll Times are also based out of The Sentinel-Review newsroom at 16 Brock St., with both having been relocated to Woodstock in February, 2013.[9] Both papers are weeklies and come out every Wednesday. Between The Sentinel Review, The Norwich Gazette and The Ingersoll Times there are two editors and five reporters, who cover news, sports, politics, health, court, education, agriculture and entertainment in Oxford County. In recent years several former and current staff have been nominated and received multiple Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism and photography, in addition to other journalism awards. There's also sales and advertisement representatives, warehouse workers and administration staff of about 20 full-time and part-time employees, including the seven people in editorial.

The advertising manager is Dave Carter and the managing editor is Bruce Urquhart, who also holds the same position with the Oxford Review and the daily newspaper The Stratford Beacon-Herald that's printed Monday to Saturday that serves the community of Stratford and surrounding areas in Perth County. Carter is also the advertising manager of both The Norwich Gazette and The Ingersoll Times, while Jennifer Vandermeer serves as the managing editor for both weekly newspapers.

Past owners, publishers, editors and notable reporters

Alexander Hay - 1854

John McWhinnie - 1854 to 1870

Robert McWhinnie - 1854 to 1870

Daniel Clark - 1870 to 1875

F.J. Gissing - 1870 to 1877

George Robson Pattullo - 1870 to 1880

Andrew Pattullo - 1875 to 1901

Robert A. Laidlaw - 1877 to 1880

William J. Taylor - 1901 to 1907

John Markey - 1907 to 1927

M. McIntrye Hood - 1927 to 1929

W.E. Elliott - 1929 to 1941

Morley Safer - 1951

See also

References

  1. Free Press Staff. "Postmedia to move printing of The Free Press". The London Free Press. The London Free Press. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. "A Look Back at 125 Years," The Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Aug. 17, 2011, sec. B, pg. 1.
  3. http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2014/10/06/postmedia-buys-sun-media-for-316m
  4. http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2015/03/25/competition-bureau-wont-challenge-sun-media-sale-to-postmedia
  5. http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/03898.html
  6. http://www.ourontario.ca/demo/News.html Retrieved on August 10, 2013.
  7. http://woodstock.news.halinet.on.ca/search Retrieved on August 10, 2013.
  8. http://207.253.99.10/digital/sections/newspapers_community.html Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  9. http://www.ingersolltimes.com/2013/01/29/ingersoll-times-office-relocated Retrieved August 8, 2013.
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