Winnipeg Free Press
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The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis.
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership |
Founder(s) | William Fisher Luxton |
Publisher | Bob Cox |
Editor | Paul Samyn |
Founded | November 30, 1872 (1872-11-30) |
Headquarters | 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R2X 3B6 |
Circulation | 101,229 weekdays 132,697 Saturdays (as of 2015)[1] |
Sister newspapers | Brandon Sun |
ISSN | 0828-1785 |
OCLC number | 1607085 |
Website | winnipegfreepress |
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The WFP was founded in 1872, only two years after Manitoba had joined Confederation (1870), and predated Winnipeg's own incorporation (1873).[2][3][4] The Winnipeg Free Press has since become the oldest newspaper in Western Canada that is still active.