Waterloo Region Record
The Record is the daily newspaper covering Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, including the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, as well as the surrounding area.
The paper was known as the Kitchener-Waterloo Record from 1948-1994, and before that as the Kitchener Daily Record. The Record has been owned by Toronto-based Torstar since December 1998. It switched from afternoon to morning home delivery in 2002.
Ownership had been in the hands of the Motz family for generations until 1990, when the paper was sold to Southam in a $90 million deal. Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. took a controlling interest in Southam in the time when it owned The Record. The paper was acquired by Sun Media in 1998, but Sun itself was bought by Quebecor soon after, and The Record was sold to Torstar.
In January 2005, The Record moved to Market Square on King Street East in Kitchener's downtown core. It had been based on Fairway Road in Kitchener since May 1973. The paper was printed at that location on a letterpress system until 2000, when printing was moved to offset presses in Vaughan. Printing later moved to Hamilton and Guelph. The building on Fairway was demolished in September 2005.
In November 2005, The Record began publishing Grand, a regional lifestyle magazine. It followed that with the March 2006 launch of Rex, a business magazine covering Waterloo Region and Guelph.
The Record has won the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism four times: 1978, 1981 (shared), 1983, and 2001. It received the 2001 award for breaking the story on the RIM Park financing fiasco.