Red Deer Advocate
Introduction The '''''Red Deer Advocate''''' is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. It publishes Tuesday through Saturday and is owned by Black Press.
History The newspaper was first established in 1901 as the ''Red Deer Echo'', changing its name to ''Alberta Advocate'' in 1903 and ''Red Deer Advocate'' in 1906.Originally it was a weekly newspaper issued on Fridays.The ''Advocate'' now publishes daily, from Tuesday to Saturday as the Monday edition was dropped late in 2016, along with the slogan "Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper".In 2019, 25 people were laid off from the ''Red Deer Advocate.'' The paper's pressroom and mailroom were closed July 1 and those operations were moved to other Black Press operations. The weekly newspaper ''Red Deer Express'' also ceased.
Weekly supplements The newspaper publishes weekly supplements called ''Central Alberta Life'' (for rural communities), and owns eleven weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the ''Bashaw Star'' (Bashaw), ''Castor Advance'' (Castor), ''Lacombe Express'' (Lacombe), ''Pipestone Flyer'' (Pipestone), ''Ponoka News'' (Ponoka), ''Rimbey Review'' (Rimbey), ''Stettler Independent''  (Stettler) and ''Sylvan Lake News'' (Sylvan Lake). In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the ''Advocate'' presses also print, by contract, several other newspapers covering communities in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
See also *List of newspapers in Canada
References
External links *  ''Red Deer Advocate''