Toronto Sun Family: 1971 - 2021

[...] If it is Christmas time, it is pink slip time at Sun Media. TSF received the following posting today: Publisher Mark Holmes from Northumberland Today let [...]

[...] Sun Media has sold four Ontario weeklies to Maple Key Media, which says "We are excited to bring [...]

[...] Today, a Toronto Star headline reads: Postmedia buys 175-paper Sun Media for $316m http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/10/06/postmedia_buys_175paper_sun_media_for_316m. [...]

[...] Sun Media has announced closure of 11 newspapers, including several that were closed in the past month or [...]

[...] The Toronto Sun turns 43 next Saturday, with many of the 62 or so Day Oners still around to mark the day and [...]

[...] newspapers over the years. Rob Lamberti, who recently took a buyout after 27 years with the Toronto Sun, will be teaching a course on community journalism at Humber Collegiate this winter. Rob writes: [...]

[...] on from the late 1970s into 1999. The following comments have been gathered from Facebook, the Toronto Sun and other sources. If you have more tributes or stories to tell about Sully, email them to [...]

[...] Ken Wyman has a Toronto Sun gem for sale. He writes: I have the original, historic, Toronto Sun City Desk, and, much as I love it, it's time for it to go to a new home. Would you like it? Or [...]

[...] will be moderated and posted, but they won't be edited so do try to be tidy in your typing. Open Forum 3 Open Forum 2 Open Forum 1 [...]

[...] what that means at Sun Media. Keep in touch via the Toronto Sun Family blog forum. Summer 2014 open forum Spring 2014 open forum  [...]

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[...] we first proposed a gathering to celebrate his induction into the Canadian News Hall of Fame, Les Pyette said he would stay over an extra night if there was enough interest. He did not know if there [...]

[...] Congrats to Les Pyette, pictured with daughter Kaydi. From the Sault Ste. Marie Star SAULT STE. MARIE - Les Pyette was [...]

[...] The Canadian News Hall of Fame will induct Les Pyette and Boris Spremo on Oct. 16 and two more deserving Canadian newspaper giants would be difficult [...]

[...] You are invited to an evening of celebration of Les Pyette’s induction into the Canadian News Hall of Fame and remembrance of the late, great Peter O' [...]

[...] , or old, don't feel guilty if you didn't know they were the first three inductees into the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1966. Ford was a longtime editor of the London Free Press; Filon was publisher [...]

[...] The Canadian News Hall of Fame will induct Les Pyette and Boris Spremo on Oct. 16 and two more deserving Canadian [...]

[...] You are invited to an evening of celebration of Les Pyette’s induction into the Canadian News Hall of Fame and remembrance of the late, great Peter O'Sullivan. When: Thursday, October 17, 7 [...]

[...] When we first proposed a gathering to celebrate his induction into the Canadian News Hall of Fame, Les Pyette said he would stay over an extra night if there was enough interest. He [...]

[...] Mark Bonokoski, a Sun legend since 1974 and one of the original members of the Windsor Mafia, is one of the [...]

[...] five or six reporters left in the newsroom. Tom Godfrey With the latest five cuts, including Mark Bonokoski, we wondered if longtime reporter Tom Godfrey was a survivor. Little did we know, the master [...]

Mark's final Sun Media column: When Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin penned his final piece for New York’s Newsday, he sign [...]

[...] We didn't think Mark Bonokoski would be idle for long after being ousted from Sun Media in July after an  award-winning run [...]

[...] We knew Peter Worthington was in hospital in Mexico when he turned 86 recently because the legendary Toronto Sun co- [...]

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[...] Peter Worthington used to say one of the many events that separated the tabloid Toronto Sun from most other [...]

[...] earned the Toronto Sun a reputation for gifted storytellers: Mark Bonokoski, Jerry Gladman, Peter Worthington, Christie Blatchford, John Downing and other prose masters. It seems being promoted to the [...]

[...] Sylvia Train, the Toronto Sun Family's former queen of the social circle set for three decades, has died. Sylvia's age remains a [...]

[...] The Toronto Sun Family has lost another member of The 62. Jean Osborne, a much-loved Day One switchboard operator, [...]

[...] The Toronto Sun Family has lost another former longtime staffer with the June 3, 2014, death of Diane Creamer. [...]