Cornwall Standard Freeholder

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Osprey Media
Publisher	Milton Ellis
Founded	1850
Headquarters	Cornwall, Ontario

Website: www.standard-freeholder.com

The Cornwall Standard Freeholder is a daily newspaper based in Cornwall, Ontario. It has been in circulation for many years, and continues to be the newspaper with the largest circulation inside the Montreal - Ottawa - Kingston triangle. The newspaper is owned by Osprey Media.

[edit] History

The Standard-Freeholder has been the newspaper of record for Cornwall and the counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry since 1850 (156 years).

The current newspaper began as two publications. The Freeholder, which was founded by the first premier of Ontario, John Sandfield Macdonald, and the Standard.

The two newspapers were amalgamated in 1932 and the first issue was published on April 30 of that year. The Standard-Freeholder became a daily newspaper in the late 1940s and now has a circulation of nearly 15,000 people.

[edit] Present

The newspaper was purchased by Osprey Media Group and remains the only daily newspaper in the triangle between Brockville, Ottawa and Montreal to this day. In 2006, the Standard-Freeholder was nominated for the first time for a National Newspaper Award for a series of articles published the day after an announcement the city's oldest and most prominent employer, Domtar Fine Papers Inc., would be shutting down its paper mill operation for good. Also in 2006, staff reporter Terri Saunders was nominated for an Ontario Newspaper Award for beat reporting in relation to her coverage of court-related issues; staff reporter Elisabeth Johns was nominated for an Ontario Newspaper Award for novice reporting; and the staff was nominated for an Ontario Newspaper Award for their coverage of the Domtar closure.

Current editorial staff includes: Managing Editor Andrew Carroll; City Editor Todd Lihou; Associate Editor Claude McIntosh; Sports Reporter Todd Hambleton Staff Reporters Kathleen Hay, Terri Saunders, Kevin Lajoie, Greg Pereenboom, Elisabeth Johns, Trevor Pritchard and Staff Photographer Ryan Pfeiffer