Regina Leader-Post

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type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1883
owners = CanWest Global Communications Corp.
headquarters = Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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website = [http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/index.html www.leaderpost.com]
The "Regina Leader-Post" is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and now a member of the CanWest News Service.

when Davin's immediate access to the developing story provided scoops which were picked up by the national press. Davin's greatest coup was his jailhouse interview with Riel, which he obtained by masquerading as a francophone priest and interviewing Riel in French under the nose of uncomprehending anglophone watchhouse guards [http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/regina/central/downtown_business/downtown_cora_rpl_h_2.html] . The "Leader" merged with another paper, the "Regina Evening Post", and continued to publish daily editions of both before consolidating them under the title "The Leader-Post". Other newspapers absorbed in due course by the "L-P" include the "Regina Daily Star" and "The Province".

In 1995, the "Leader-Post" released an electronic version of the newspaper so that subscribers could view their newspapers on the internet. Electronic and daily print subscribers also enjoy access to extra content not available to all readers.

Later that year, the paper and its sister, the Saskatoon "StarPhoenix", were acquired from their owner, the Markham, Ont.-based Armadale group, by Hollinger Inc. group, a company then headed by then-Canadian media baron Conrad Black. Within three months, the staffs at each newspaper had been cut by one-quarter, these cuts becoming a "cause célèbre" in Canadian journalism.

Black's company subsequently divested itself of the "Leader-Post" together with most other Canadian news media it had owned, in conjunction with Black's renunciation of his Canadian citizenship in order to obtain an English peerage.

External links

* [http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/index.html Regina Leader-Post]
* [http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/regina/central/downtown_business/downtown_cora_rpl_h_2.html City of Regina Archives historical notes on the Leader-Post]