The Kimberley Bulletin is a weekly newspaper in Kimberley, British Columbia. It publishes Wednesday and is owned by Black Press.

Kimberley Bulletin
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Black Press
PublisherKaren Johnston
EditorCarolyn Grant
Founded1932
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters335 Spokane Street, Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada
Circulation794 (as of October 2022)[1]
Websitekimberleybulletin.com

History

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The Bulletin used to publish Mondays through Fridays, billing itself as "Canada's smallest daily newspaper".[2]

Don Kendall, a former executive at Black Press, purchased the Daily Bulletin and Cranbrook Daily Townsman in July 2010, as part of a larger deal that saw Glacier Media sell several of its British Columbia papers to Black. At the time, Kendall said Black "wasn't as interested in some titles – Cranbrook, Kimberley, Nelson, and Prince Rupert – but Glacier was only selling the papers as a block."[3]

Black did purchase the Nelson Daily News and Prince Rupert Daily News in 2010, and ended up closing them days later. It already owned competing weeklies in both Nelson and Prince Rupert.[4]

Although it also owns a competing weekly in Cranbrook, the Kootenay Advertiser, Black purchased the Daily Townsman and Daily Bulletin from Kendall a year later, promising that both the weekly and the dailies "will continue to run under their current business plan and we anticipate few changes".[5]

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References

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  1. ^ "2023 Black Press Media Kit" (PDF). Black Press Media. April 1, 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  2. ^ "Cranbrook Daily Townsman". BlackPress.ca. Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2012. It is owned by Victoria-based Black Press, the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in British Columbia.
  3. ^ Coulter, Barry (July 7, 2010). "Townsman/Bulletin Under New Ownership". Cranbrook Daily Townsman. Retrieved March 12, 2012.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Canadian Press (July 17, 2010). "Black Press Closes Two Daily Newspapers in B.C." Toronto Star. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  5. ^ "Black Press Buys Cranbrook, Kimberley Dailies". The Morning Star. Vernon, B.C. July 22, 2011. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
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