Ottawa Citizen

A screengrab of the Citizen’s HQ from Google Street View. Happy birthday to the Ottawa Citizen, which turns 175 this year! The Ottawa Citizen started out as The Packet in March 1845 and was renamed to The Ottawa Citizen in 1851. ...

Via The Canadian Press The Ottawa Citizen said Wednesday it has no intention of taking down a secretly recorded video of several Ottawa Senators players despite a legal notice insisting leaving it online violates provincial privacy laws. The Ottawa Citizen flatly rejected the legal notice from the Senators, saying the video shot surreptitiously by an Uber driver was circulating on social media when the paper decided to report on it. ...

This note was appended at the end of David Reevely’s column in the Citizen on Thursday: Some personal news: Eighteen years, three owners, four editors-in-chief and five newsroom jobs later, this is my last regular column here. On Monday, I start as a news editor in the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, covering Parliament Hill. ...

This afternoon on Twitter Ottawa Citizen columnist David Reevely tweeted quite a thread on government transparency re: contracts. Bunch of government officials reach an agreement to transfer public land from one entity to another, for public purposes. They hold a public event for it! ...

The Stittsville News is one of eight local community papers that will be closed after a swap between Postmedia and Torstar. (File photo) Nine Ottawa-area newspapers will be shuttered after a trade between Canada’s two largest newspaper chains. The swap, announced Monday, saw Postmedia Network Canada Corp. ...

Reports of Susan Sherring’s retirement are greatly exaggerated. Certainly, she has taken a buyout from the Ottawa Sun and yes, she has put down her pen for now. But she’s not going away that easily. Sherring, 57, had been at the paper since day one, writing about everything and anything. ...

_ ** iPolitics ** _ reported Thursday on more cuts coming to the Postmedia-owned ** _ Ottawa Citizen _ ** _ and _ ** _ Ottawa Sun _ ** . According to the Ottawa Newspaper Guild, Postmedia will reduce the amount of local coverage in the print editions of the two papers. ...

Here’s an article from the Oct. 13, 1951 edition of the _ ** Ottawa Citizen ** _ , just in time for throwback Thursday:

There’s been some movement in Ottawa’s media landscape this week, here’s a roundup: Shakeup at New Country 94 ( CKKL-FM ) If you listen to this station, your morning drive is going to be a bit different from now on. ...