Woodstock Sentinel-Review
"The Woodstock Sentinel-Review" is a local daily newspaper that serves Woodstock, Ontario and Oxford County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It's published four days a week, Tuesday to Friday, after the Monday print edition was ended November 19, 2018. "The Sentinel-Review" is owned by the Postmedia Network corporation. The newspaper is printed at "The Hamilton Spectator", which prints several Postmedia Network newspapers, and is designed in Barrie, Ontario. The "Sentinel-Review" was formerly printed at The London Free Press for more than 10 years until their print production moved to Hamilton after Postmedia  announced The London Free Press' printing press operations would be closed and outsourced to Hamilton. The "Sentinel-Review"s last London print date was Oct. 6, 2016 and their first printing out of Hamilton was Oct. 10, 2016. Content for "The Oxford Review" is provided from the "Sentinel-Review" and is delivered by mail every Thursday in Oxford County. History. In one form or another, "The Sentinel-Review" has been published since the 1850s and has gone by several names, including "The Daily Sentinel-Review", "The Weekly Sentinel-Review", "The Woodstock Herald", "The Woodstock Monarch", "The Woodstock Times", "The Woodstock Review , and The Woodstock Sentinel". Although having gone through different names over its lengthy history, it was originally two newspapers. The "Woodstock Sentinel" began on Jan. 1, 1854, while the "Woodstock Review" first appeared Oct. 1, 1870. The two papers would merge about 16 years later on Saturday, Sept. 11, 1886 with George Robson Pattullo serving as the first editor when it was a weekly and his brother, Andrew Pattullo, after it became a daily. The "Sentinel-Review", which was formerly part of the Sun Media chain of newspapers that was a division of Quebecor Media, was purchased by Postmedia Network  in October 2014 with the sale being approved Competition Bureau in March 2015. Archived editions of "The Sentinel-Review", or one of its predecessors, starting from the 1850s to the present can be found online at the Woodstock Public Library and Oxford Historical Association. Readership. "The Sentinel-Review" is available throughout Oxford County, but primarily in Woodstock with newspapers also being available and delivered to Tavistock, Thamesford, Ingersoll, Beachville, Embro, Norwich, Innerkip, Burgessville, Tillsonburg, Plattsville and other communities in the Oxford County. In the 2000s "The Sentinel-Review" began publishing stories, photos and videos online on its website as a  new avenue to reach readers in the changing era of journalism. From the time they began the crossover into the digital age, "The Sentinel-Review" has had a presence in multiple social media forums such as Twitter, Facebook, the Internet, live chats and other methods to further reach local, national and international readers. Since those early online days, they have maintained a constant digital presence with thousands of unique page views. Newsroom. "The Sentinel-Review" newsroom was based out of 16 Brock St. in Woodstock until late November, 2017 when the office was sold and the paper was left without  a home. "The Sentinel-Review" continued to be without an office until it was moved into the "London Free Press" newsroom at 210 Dundas St. in London, Ontario as of April 29, 2019. The Brock St. office also had "The Ingersoll Times" and "The Norwich Gazette" staffed in their building beginning in February. 2013. Both papers were weeklies and came out every Wednesday. In 2017, between "The Sentinel Review", "The Norwich Gazette" and "The Ingersoll Times" there are two editors and five reporters, who cover news, sports, politics, health, court, education, agriculture and entertainment in Oxford County. As of 2019 , there were two reporters. "The Ingersoll Times" and "The Norwich Gazette" were closed by Postmedia in June, 2018. In recent years several former and current staff have been nominated and received multiple Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism and photography, in addition to other journalism awards. There's also sales and advertisement representatives, warehouse workers and administration staff of about 20 full-time and part-time employees, including the seven people in editorial as of 2017. In 2019, there were about five. The advertising manager is Curtis Armstrong and the managing editor is Bruce Urquhart, who also holds the same position  with the "Oxford Review" and the daily newspaper "The Stratford Beacon-Herald" that's printed Monday to Saturday that serves the community of Stratford and surrounding areas in Perth County. Past owners, publishers, editors and notable reporters. Alexander Hay - 1854 John McWhinnie - 1854 to 1870 Robert McWhinnie - 1854 to 1870 Daniel Clark - 1870 to 1875 F.J. Gissing - 1870 to 1877 George Robson Pattullo - 1870 to 1880 Andrew Pattullo - 1875 to 1901 Robert A. Laidlaw - 1877 to 1880 William J. Taylor - 1901 to 1907 John Markey - 1907 to 1927 M. McIntrye Hood - 1927 to 1929 W.E. Elliott - 1929 to 1941 Bill  Fitsell - late 1940s Morley Safer - 1951