Red Deer Advocate

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Red Deer Advocate
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Black Press
Founded1901 as Red Deer Echo
Headquarters2950 Bremner Avenue
Red Deer, Alberta
T4R 1M9
Circulation 5,737(as of November 2020) [1]
ISSN 0832-4379
Website www.reddeeradvocate.com

The Red Deer Advocate is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. [2] [3] [4] [5] It publishes Tuesday through Saturday and is owned by Black Press.

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History

The newspaper was first established in 1901 as the Red Deer Echo, changing its name to Alberta Advocate in 1903 and Red Deer Advocate in 1906. Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays. [6]

The Advocate now publishes daily, from Tuesday to Saturday as the Monday edition was dropped late in 2016, along with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper".

In 2019, 25 people were laid off from the Red Deer Advocate. The paper's pressroom and mailroom were closed July 1 and those operations were moved to other Black Press operations. The weekly newspaper Red Deer Express also ceased. [7]

Weekly supplements

The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called Central Alberta Life (for rural communities), and owns eleven weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the Bashaw Star (Bashaw), Castor Advance (Castor), Lacombe Express (Lacombe), Pipestone Flyer (Pipestone), Ponoka News (Ponoka), Rimbey Review (Rimbey), Stettler Independent (Stettler) and Sylvan Lake News (Sylvan Lake). In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the Advocate presses also print, by contract, several other newspapers covering communities in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. [6]

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