Dan McLeod, Charlie Smith, Ian Hanington, Beverley Sinclair, Charles Campbell, Bob Mercer, Nick Collier
Categories
Alternative weekly newspaper
Frequency
Weekly
First issue
1967; 57 years ago (1967)
Company
Overstory Media Group
Country
Canada
Based in
Vancouver, British Columbia
Language
English
Website
www.straight.com
ISSN
1485-1318
The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as The Straight, it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations.
The Straight has a long history of independent, unconventional editorials and content, and is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell.
As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average as of January 25, 2011[update], was 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership was 804,000 as of 2009[update].[1] Its website traffic once ranked 92,215 globally and 5,395 within Canada, according to November 2, 2021, figures[update] from Alexa.[2] As of April 2024, The Straight is now published monthly reaching 25,000 people.[3]
In January 2020, the newspaper's acquisition by Media Central Corporation was announced, a few weeks after the same company announced a deal to acquire the similar Toronto publication Now.[4] In September 2022, after Media Central Corporation filed for bankruptcy, The Straight was acquired by Overstory Media Group.[5]
^Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Archived 2004-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
^"Straight.com". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
^"Advertise with the Georgia Straight | Georgia Straight » Vancouver's source for arts, culture, and events". The Georgia Straight. 2017-12-18. Retrieved 2024-05-09.
^"Georgia Straight sold to Media Central Corp. for $1.25M". CBC News British Columbia, January 6, 2020.
^Connie Thiessen, "Overstory Media Group acquires Vancouver alt weekly The Georgia Straight". Broadcast Dialogue, September 27, 2022.
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