Alta Newspaper Group

This article is about a Canadian publisher. For the defunct publisher in the northeastern United States, see Alta Group Newspapers.
Alta Newspaper Group L.P.
Company typePrivate
IndustryNewspapers and marketing
HeadquartersVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Area served
Western Canada and Quebec
Key people
David Radler, founder
ProductsThree daily newspapers and several weekly newspapers
ParentGlacier Media (59%)
David Radler (41%)
DivisionsSouthern Alberta Newspapers
TriCube Media

Alta Newspaper Group Limited Partnership is a Vancouver-based publisher of newspapers in Western Canada and Quebec. It owns three small daily newspapers and more than a dozen weeklies.

Alta, also known as Alberta Newspaper Group and Southern Alberta Newspapers, is one of two Canadian newspaper companies run and partially owned by David Radler, a former business partner of Conrad Black in Hollinger Inc.[1] Both Alta and Continental Newspapers are descendants of Horizon Operations (Canada) Ltd., a company Radler founded at the end of the 1990s.

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