User:Zanimum/Media in Brampton
Canada's ninth largest city, Brampton, has one mainstream weekly newspaper (The Brampton Guardian, a variety of ethnic media outlets, and news websites. Its last mainstream daily newspaper, The Brampton Daily Times, ended publication in 199-.
News media
[edit]Brampton has been described by the Local News Research Project as a city with "local news poverty," a low ratio of outlets per capita.[1]
The Brampton Guardian was established by Bramalea Limited in 196- to serve their subdivision in the rural Chinguacousy Township. Once acquired by Inland Publishing, The Bramalea Guardian added a separate edition called The Brampton Guardian. The two publications would later unite under one masthead, and eventually collectively be named The Brampton Guardian. From their peak of three issues a week, the publication has reduced their print schedule to a weekly.
There was briefly an outlet called Peel Daily News, publishing weekly in print, and daily online. As of ____, it became a weekly, online-only publication, formatted if it was in print.
Online
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Bramptonist
inBrampton launched November 2016.[2]
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In September 2018, former Toronto Star reporter San Grewal founded a subscription-based service called The Pointer. The outlet has six full time staff and six freelancers who focus on longform, feature, and investigative reporting. The site does not accept investments or advertising. Grewal has suggested that the site needs 5-10% of residents to subscribe, for the site to be sustainable.[3]
Other websites include Brampton Focus, which produces a variety of video programming.
Ethnic press
[edit]Historic newspapers
[edit]The Brampton Bulletin was a news weekly published between 2005 and 2006.
Broadcast media
[edit]The only television news outlet in Brampton was Rogers TV, which broadcast a program called First Local.