Toronto Sun Family: 1971 - 2021

[...] Updated Dec. 7, 2013 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. [...]

[...] Another new independent free Ontario newspaper was born today in Petrolia, competition for Sun Media's Petrolia Topic. It is appropriately called the Independent. Update on the launch by Heather [...]

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

[...] Her smile and the glow that came from being one of the Toronto Sun's key promotions staffers is what we will remember of Lesley Annett. Mike Strobel has written [...]

[...] of multi-talented Windsor Star newsmen. All but two were involved in the rising of the Toronto Sun. It is an amazing, nostalgic photo when you realize the talent represented in this one [...]

[...] Happy 42th birthday, Toronto Sun. And, yes, you do look thinner. Take a bow Andy Donato and Christina Blizzard, the two [...]

[...] 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 [...]

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

Have your say about 2014 happenings at Sun Media, including more cuts said to be on the horizon. [...]

Keep your fellow Sun Media colleagues and former staffers up to date on happenings at your newspaper and the Sun Media chain. [...]

No Christmas layoffs for the TSF forums this year, but keep in touch as we close 2014 and begin a new year with new owners on the horizon. Merry Chri [...]

[...] The Toronto Sun Family has lost another member of The 62. Jean Osborne, a much-loved Day One switchboard operator, died in her 80s on Aug. 19, 2014, from the ravages [...]

[...] Updated Aug. 25, 2014 Jean Osborne was a very special in the hearts of former Toronto Sun colleagues. They remember her smile, [...]

[...] Updated Dec. 17 re Ron Base 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 former longtime staffer with the June 3, 2014, death of Diane Creamer. [...]

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

[...] Updated Marilynn Figueroa, as Hugh Wesley noted in a Facebook posting, knows where all of the bodies are buried after three-plus decades in Sun executive offices [...]

[...] 's Aug. 17 wedding just a week before dying of ovarian cancer at 65. Trudy Eagan says in a Facebook posting: "Beautiful column [...]

[...] Andy Donato and Christina Blizzard, the two remaining Day Oners from the 62 or so former Toronto Telegram staffers who got it started in the Eclipse Building on Nov. 1, 1971. Simon Kent, a relative [...]

[...] 's. Jean, remembered for her smile and kindly disposition, was one of the 62 former Toronto Telegram staffers to take a gamble on the upstart Sun in the old Eclipse Building at King St. W. and [...]

[...] Another former Sun Media staffer has launched a free newspaper, this time a Clinton-based monthly print/online edition to [...]

[...] Smart is home again and loving it as sports editor of Metroland's new Norfolk News. The former Sun Media staffer, one of hundreds pink-slipped in July, is excited about being a Day Oner at a new [...]