type private industry newspapers founded 1995 headquarters 340 carleton drive st. albert alberta t8n 7l3 canada area served alberta key people duff jamison president ceo paul rockley executive vp products 24 weekly newspapers parent glacier media 50 % jamison newspapers 50 % subsidiaries mountain view publishing rocky view publishing website www.greatwest.ca footnotes references 1 2 great west newspapers limited partnership is a canadian publisher of weekly newspapers in the province of alberta . it is headquartered in st. albert alberta . the company is jointly owned by glacier media a vancouver based publisher and the local family business jamison newspapers which operates great west s properties . contents 1 history 2 properties 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit great west was founded in 1995 as a partnership between southam inc. and the jamison family which had owned the st. albert gazette since 1966 the newspaper itself had been founded in 1961 . the jamisons had run the paper as a family business but prided themselves on professional journalism ; the gazette staff produced a daily newspaper for the 1978 commonwealth games in edmonton . 3 the gazette had first partnered with southam in 1988 when the jamisons began printing suburban editions of neighbours a publication of the southam owned edmonton journal as well as some colour comics and television inserts for the journal and calgary herald . 4 over the next 15 years great west grew its holdings to 20 weekly newspapers across the province . in 1997 southam was purchased by hollinger inc. in 2005 jamison newspapers bought out its partner but sold a 50 % stake in great west to glacier media . the company built a 25 million office and printing plant in campbell business park . in august 2012 the company announced that it struck a deal with postmedia to print the edmonton journal . the journal will begin printing at great west s facility in the late spring of 2013 . 4 great west swapped newspapers with black press in 2010 gaining the rocky mountain outlook in canmore alberta and unloading the red deer express a weekly that competed with black s daily red deer advocate . the swap was part of a larger deal that saw glacier sell many of its british columbia newspapers to black . 5 glacier continued to operate a competing award winning weekly in st. albert the saint city news until 2010 when the paper was sold to great west . great west closed the saint city news in 2011 citing a decline in advertising revenue . 6 properties edit great west newspapers all of which are weeklies based in alberta are 7 airdrie city view athabasca advocate barrhead leader bonnyville nouvelle calgary senior carstairs courier cochrane eagle didsbury review edmonton senior edmonton woman magazine elk point review fast forward weekly innisfail province lac la biche post okotoks western wheel olds albertan rocky mountain outlook rocky view weekly st. albert gazette st. paul journal sundre round up westlock news the company also owns several regional publications and an interest in glacier media s agricultural publications . see also edit list of newspapers in canada references edit about us great west . greatwest.ca . retrieved march 28 2012 . about us leadership . greatwest.ca . retrieved march 28 2012 . the family that works together produces a newspaper . st. albert gazette . october 12 2011 . p. 4b . retrieved march 28 2012 . a b the gazette through the ages . st. albert gazette . october 12 2011 . p. 14b . retrieved march 28 2012 . black press buys red deer express newspaper . red deer advocate . red deer alta . june 30 2010 . retrieved march 28 2012 . hare cory july 2 2011 . saint city news shuts down . st. albert gazette . retrieved march 28 2012 . great west newspapers publications . greatwest.ca . retrieved march 13 2012 . external links edit great west newspapers v t e glacier media publications alaska highway news dawson creek daily news the prince george citizen times colonist glacier newspaper group weekly newspapers glacier trade information group subsidiaries alta newspaper group 59 % continental newspapers 27.6 % great west newspapers 50 % risn operations 50 % retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title great west newspapers & oldid 647152211 categories glacier medianewspaper companies of canadacompanies based in albertast . albert alberta navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 21 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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