Started by laid-off staff the day after their old paper folded
The Toronto Sun
When the Toronto Telegram shut down in 1971, a group of its former staff launched the tabloid Toronto Sun almost overnight, building it into the city's brash alternative to the broadsheets.
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The Toronto Sun launched on November 1, 1971, the day after the Toronto Telegram, one of the city's major daily newspapers, published its final edition after 95 years. A group of former Telegram staff, including editor Peter Worthington, moved quickly to fill the gap the Telegram's closure left, launching the Sun as a scrappy tabloid out of a converted warehouse with a fraction of the resources of the established dailies.
A tabloid alternative
The Sun built its identity in explicit contrast to the more staid Globe and Mail and Toronto Star, leaning into tabloid-style sports coverage, opinion writing and a populist, often conservative editorial voice. It grew into a chain of Sun papers across Canada under Sun Media, and while ownership has changed hands multiple times since, the Toronto Sun remains one of the city's daily newspapers, still carrying the tabloid identity it launched with in 1971.
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