Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News
{{Short description|Canadian newspaper in British Columbia}}
{{Primary sources|date=April 2009}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News
| type = Weekly newspaper
| owners = Black Press
| publisher = Lisa Farquharson
| foundation = 1978
| circulation = 30,118
| circulation_date = October 2022
| website = {{URL|mapleridgenews.com}}
}}
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Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News is a weekly newspaper serving Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, British Columbia. It publishes Friday and is owned by Black Press.{{cite web |url=http://blackpress.ca/division/profile.php?divID=2&paperID=46 |title=Black Press |website=blackpress.ca |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129091427/http://blackpress.ca/division/profile.php?divID=2&paperID=46 |archive-date=29 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}
History
Founded in 1978 as a free-distribution paper called the Local News, The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
Then-publisher Bob Long ran the paper on a 'shoestring' with significant input from local writers.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}{{Cite web |last=Long |first=Bob |title=Bob Long Bio |url=http://BobLong.ca/bio}} In 1983 Gordon Robson took over the assets of the fledgling publication and then in 1985 sold the paper to Hacker Press, which eventually sold to Black Press. The paper then expanded from weekly to twice-weekly with the publication of The Sunday News, extending its reach westward into neighboring communities, laying the groundwork to launch successful sister papers, the Tri-City News and Burnaby/New Westminster News Leader.
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.mapleridgenews.com/}}
{{Black Press}}
{{Canadian journalism}}
Category:Newspapers published in British Columbia
Category:Black Press newspapers
Category:Newspapers established in 1978