The Vancouver Sun

Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on February 12, 1912. The paper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. It is published six days a week, Monday to Saturday. In more recent years, its opinions have been considered by scholars to be more right-wing and conservative.

Although its staff of reporters has shrunken considerably in recent years, the Sun still has the largest newsroom in Vancouver. The Sun is a broadsheet newspaper and is not part of the Sun Media chain that operates tabloid papers in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton.

History

When the Sun began operation, it was published at 125 West Pender Street, just around the corner from The Province, its rival newspaper at the time.

In 1924, the Sun bought the Vancouver World newspaper, which had been in financial difficulty for some time.

In March 1937, a fire destroyed the Sun's business and editorial offices. The only casualty was the janitor, who suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation. The Sun promptly moved across the street into the World Building, where the World had previously been published. The building was accordingly renamed the Sun Tower.

In 1958, the Sun and the Province joined to create the Pacific Press in response to the rising costs of producing newspapers. First the papers merged their mechanical and financial departments, then they both moved into the Pacific Press Building on December 27, 1965.

The paper moved to Granville Square in 1997.

According to a recent NADbank survey, the Sun's daily readership was 499,800, making it British Columbia's second most read newspaper, after The Province. Its six-day average circulation was 203,390 copies a day as of December 31, 2001.

Sections

The Sun has multiple sections. Its main, or A, section usually contains the top local stories of the day along with local columns. The B section features national and world news, along with analysis. The paper also has daily Arts & Life, BusinessBC and Sports sections. On Thursdays, The Sun publishes a tabloid entertainment section called Westcoast Life. On Saturdays, there is a section called Weekend Review with columnists, features and articles on science. The Sun also publishes a popular editorial section each fall called BC's Top Employers, profiling employers in the province with progressive and interesting workplace policies.

Senior Editors

Patricia Graham, Editor-in-Chief

Harold Munro, Deputy Managing Editor

Paul Bucci, Deputy Managing Editor, Digital

Valerie Casselton, Executive Editor

Nicholas Palmer, Senior Editor

Fazil Mihlar, Editorial Pages Editor

Department Editors

Adrienne Tanner, City Editor

Dan Cassidy, Assignment Editor

Cheryl Shoji, Photo Desk

Bev Wake, Special Projects, Olympics

Fiona Anderson, Business Editor

Scott Brown, Sports Editor

Maggie Langrick, Arts, Life & Entertainment

Juanita Ng, Food Editor

Brad Frenette, Social Media & Digital Editor

Steve Snelgrove, Weekend Review Editor

Roger Watanabe, Design Editor

Columnists

David Baines

Daphne Bramham

Don Cayo

Cam Cole

Shelley Fralic

Anthony Gismondi

Stephen Hume

Jonathan Manthorpe

Craig McInnes

Peter McKnight

Pete McMartin

Fazil Mihlar

Ian Mulgrew

Vaughn Palmer

Malcolm Parry

Doug Todd

Steve Whysall

Barbara Yaffe

Reporters

Beamish, Mike (Sports)

Bellett, Gerry (News)

Birnie, Peter (Features)

Bolan, Kim (Crime)

Constantineau, Bruce (Sports)

Culbert, Lori (News)

Fayerman, Pamela (Health)

Fowlie, Johnathan (Legislative Bureau)

Gram, Karen (Features)

Griffin, Kevin (Culture & Arts)

Hall, Neal (News)

Hamilton, Gordon (Business)

Kingston, Gary (Sports)

Lee, Jeff (City Hall)

Lee, Jenny (Features)

Little, Lyndon (Sports)

MacIntyre, Iain (Sports)

Mackie, John (Features)

O'Brian, Amy (Features)

Pap, Elliott (Sports)

Pemberton, Kim (Features)

Penner, Derrick (Business)

Pynn, Larry (News)

Scott, Michael (On leave)

Shaw, Gillian (Business

Tracy Sherlock (Books)

Kelly Sinoski (Metro)

Simpson, Scott (Business)

Skelton, Chad (News)

Stainsby, Mia (Restaurants & Features)

Steffenhagen, Janet (Education)

Todd, Douglas (Religion)

Walker, Ian (Sports)

Ward, Doug (News)

Whysall, Steve (Gardening)

Zacharias, Yvonne (Features)

Ziemer, Brad (Sports)