Brunswick News

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Brunswick News Inc. is a Canadian newspaper publishing company based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Brunswick News is privately owned by J.K. Irving.

[edit] Newspapers

Brunswick News employs more than 600 people and owns three daily newspapers and several French and English language weeklies throughout the province.

Brunswick News operates the following newspapers:

Daily

Weekly Brunswick News owns 14 English-language weeklies (6 paid subscription, 5 free) and 7 French-language weeklies (4 paid subscription, 3 free).

The Tribune (English language) (Campbellton and Restigouche County)
La Voix (French Language) (Campbellton and Restigouche County)
The Bugle-Observer (Woodstock)
La Cataract (French Language) (Grand Falls, New Brunswick)
Le Madawaska (French Language) (Edmundston, New Brunswick)
L'Etoile (French Language) (Dieppe, Shediac and Kent editions)
L'Hebdo Chaleur (French Language) (Chaleur region)
Kings County Record (English language) (Sussex, Kings County area)
Miramichi Leader (English language) (Miramichi) (Three times a week)
The Northern Light (English language) (Bathurst)
[here] Moncton (English language)
[here] Saint John (English language)
[here] Fredericton (English language)

[edit] Media concentration controversy

Brunswick News Inc. is the largest owner of media in New Brunswick. It's owned by J.K. Irving, who is also co-owner of the "Irving Group of Companies" one of the largest industrial conglomerates in eastern Canada.

While some citizens accuse newspapers owned by Brunswick News of bias and of failing to cover stories that depict subsidiaries in the Irving Group of Companies in a negative light, there is a general misunderstanding who owns the newspaper company. Brunswick News is not owned by the Irving group. It is solely owned by J.K. Irving.

The Irving media concentration of New Brunswick was investigated in the Davey report (1970) and the Kent commission (1981) [1] during an era before extensive media concentration took place across Canada in the 1990s; at that time, the Irving concentration in New Brunswick was considered unique in the country's media landscape.

In 2005, with a donation of $2 million, the Irving family endowed two chairs of journalism in New Brunswick: the Irving Chair in Journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton and the Romeo LeBlanc Chair in Journalism sponsored by Brunswick News at Universite de Moncton. An advisory board at each university makes the selections for the chairs.