20 Facts About Halifax Herald

Chronicle Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada owned by SaltWire Network of Halifax.

Halifax Herald was known as a humanistic employer interested in the welfare of his employees, stating that his proudest moment was the introduction of a pension plan for Herald staff.

Halifax Herald had a reputation as an "old-school media baron" who set up bureaus across Canada and even one in London, England.

In January 2004, The Chronicle Halifax Herald became the first newspaper in Canada, and one of only several in the world, to operate a WIFAG offset press.

The Chronicle Halifax Herald moved in 2008 to one of the buildings on the ex-Maritime Life campus in Armdale.

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In October 2008, The Chronicle Halifax Herald was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc, and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.

Halifax Herald stated that these layoffs were the result of a decline in advertising due to the distress of the current economic situation.

In 2014, the Halifax Herald issued layoff notices to another 20 newsroom employees.

Discord erupted in 2011 after the Halifax Herald wrote a new contract for freelance journalists that gave the newspaper rights to freelancers' work forever, without any payment for signing over the copyright.

Halifax Herald launched the glossy Herald Magazine in February 2012.

In February 2015, the Halifax Herald locked out its 13 unionized printing press workers, causing the first work stoppage in the company's history.

The Chronicle Halifax Herald refused any concessions offered by the union, and later on the striking staff launched a competing online newspaper called Local Xpress.

Union criticized the Halifax Herald for spending more than $400,000 on security while demanding cuts in the newsroom, and stated that the real intention of management was to bust the union.

In September 2016 the Halifax Herald announced that it was shutting down the Cape Breton Star due to "a prevailing headwind of union sympathy in industrial Cape Breton".

Investigative journalist Tim Bousquet, of the Halifax Herald Examiner, questioned the newspaper's practice of printing advertorial content nearly indistinguishable from regular news.

Alex Boutilier of the Toronto Star spoke out after the Halifax Herald reprinted one of his articles and attributed it to his name only, with no mention of the Star, making it appear as though he was writing as a strikebreaker.

Boutilier stated that he could not find the piece on The Canadian Press news wire while Bousquet commented that aside from the Star, the Halifax Herald appears to have been the only other newspaper to print the story.

The Halifax Herald subsequently removed his byline from the online edition.

Chronicle Halifax Herald has seen like most Canadian daily newspapers a decline in circulation.

The Chronicle Herald is the highest circulation newspaper in the Atlantic provinces, although it briefly lost that title to the now-defunct StarMetro Halifax.