Alta Newspaper Group
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This article is about a Canadian publisher. For the defunct publisher in the northeastern United States, see Alta Group Newspapers.
Alta Newspaper Group Limited Partnership is a Vancouver-based publisher of newspapers in Western Canada and Quebec. It owns three small daily newspapers and more than a dozen weeklies.
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Newspapers and marketing |
Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Area served | Western Canada and Quebec |
Key people | David Radler, founder |
Products | Three daily newspapers and several weekly newspapers |
Parent | Glacier Media (59%) David Radler (41%) |
Divisions | Southern Alberta Newspapers TriCube Media |
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Alta, also known as Alberta Newspaper Group and Southern Alberta Newspapers, is one of two Canadian newspaper companies run and partially owned by David Radler, a former business partner of Conrad Black in Hollinger Inc. Hollinger Inc.[1] Both Alta and Continental Newspapers are descendants of Horizon Operations (Canada) Ltd., a company Radler founded at the end of the 1990s.