Surrey Now-Leader

The Surrey Now-Leader is a weekly newspaper serving Surrey, North Delta and White Rock in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It publishes Thursday and is owned by Black Press.

For publications with a similar title, see Now.
The Surrey Now News Leader
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Black Press
PublisherDwayne Weidendorf[1]
EditorBeau Simpson
Founded1984
Headquarters102 - 5460 152 St
Surrey, British Columbia
Canada V3S 5J9
Circulation66,107 (as of March 2022)[2]
ISSN0841-8764
Websitewww.surreynowleader.com

History

The newspaper was established in 1984.[3]

In 2015, Glacier Media sold Surrey Now to Black Press,[4] which already owned The Surrey Leader. This sale was part a large transaction that resulted in both of those publishers effectively swapping dozens of newspapers, resulting in each publisher being in significantly fewer areas across British Columbia, but each owning both local newspapers in the areas where they remained. Also in 2015, Now reporter Amy Reid received the S. Tara Singh Hayer journalism award due to work highlighting needs of homeless people.[5]

In March 2017, Black Press, publisher of Surrey Now (also known as The Now) and The Surrey Leader, announced that the two papers would be merged into a single paper as of April 5, 2017. Each paper published twice per week and the merged paper published twice per week. The merged paper was announced as The Surrey Now News-Leader.[6] This was one of numerous papers owned by Black Press that merged following Black Press' transaction with Glacier Media, due to many communities having two newspapers owned by Black Press serving the same communities.

During the final week of March 2020, the paper reduced from publishing twice per week to once per week, citing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, calling this a temporary measure.[7] The frequency was not restored back to twice per week.

See also

References
  1. "Surrey Now - Our Team". thenownewspaper.com. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  2. "2022 Black Press Media Kit" (PDF). Black Press Media. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  3. glaciermedia.ca
  4. Bradshaw, James (2014-12-17). "Black Press, Glacier Media strike deal to swap B.C. community newspapers". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  5. "Now reporter Amy Reid receives S. Tara Singh Hayer Journalism Award in Surrey". The Now. Oct 30, 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  6. Pablo, Carlito (March 23, 2017). "Surrey Now and Surrey–North Delta Leader folding into one newspaper". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  7. "Now-Leader temporarily moving to weekly publication in face of COVID-19 - Surrey Now-Leader". www.surreynowleader.com. 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2023-08-20.


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