Red Deer Advocate

Daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Red Deer Advocate

Type| Daily newspaper
Format| Tabloid
Owner(s)| Black Press
Founded| 1901 as Red Deer Echo
Headquarters| 2950 Bremner Avenue
Red Deer, Alberta
T4R 1M9
Circulation| 5,579 (as of October 2022)[1]
ISSN| 0832-4379
Website| reddeeradvocate.com

The Red Deer Advocate is a twice-weekly newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.[2][3][4][5] It publishes Wednesday and Saturday and is owned by Black Press.

## History

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The newspaper was first established in 1901 as the Red Deer Echo, changing its name to Alberta Advocate in 1903 and Red Deer Advocate in 1906. Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays.[6]

In 2016, the paper moved to five days a week, dropping the Monday edition, along with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper".

In 2019, 25 people were laid off from the Red Deer Advocate. The paper's pressroom and mailroom were closed July 1 and those operations were moved to other Black Press operations. The weekly newspaper Red Deer Express also ceased.[7]

In 2024, Advocate moved from publishing a print edition from five days a week to two on Wednesdays and Saturdays.[8]

## Weekly supplements

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The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called Central Alberta Life (for rural communities), and owns eleven weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the Lacombe Express (Lacombe), Pipestone Flyer (Pipestone), Ponoka News (Ponoka), Rimbey Review (Rimbey), Stettler Independent (Stettler) and Sylvan Lake News (Sylvan Lake). In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the Advocate presses also print, by contract, several other newspapers covering communities in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.[6]

## See also

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* List of newspapers in Canada

## References

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1. ^ "2023 Black Press Media Kit" (PDF). Black Press Media. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
2. ^ "Red Deer Advocate - mediainalberta.ca". mediainalberta.ca. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
3. ^ "Red Deer Advocate". Retrieved 2023-03-28.
4. ^ "Red Deer filmmaker Love Nwigwe screens 'I Can't Breathe'". Calgary. 2022-11-04. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
5. ^ "Digital Collections - Red Deer Advocate". digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
6. ^ a b "History of the Red Deer Advocate". RedDeerAdvocate.com: About Us. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
7. ^ Southwick, Reid (March 27, 2019). "Historic Red Deer weekly newspaper publishes last issue as owner seeks savings". CBC News. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
8. ^ Hackett, Byron (2024-09-17). "The Red Deer Advocate is evolving". Red Deer Advocate. Retrieved 2024-10-21.

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