Immediately marks the official relaunch of Oakville’s go-to supply for native information and data, now owned by the identical firm that operates this group web site
Our Village retains on rising.
Village Media, the native information firm behind this group web site, has unveiled a revamped, redesigned Oakville Information, which it acquired final month.
Relaunched this morning, Oakville Information is Village Media’s twenty third owned-and-operated native information supply in Ontario, becoming a member of neighbouring websites BurlingtonToday, HaltonHillsToday, FlamboroughToday and the soon-to-be-live MiltonToday.
Our roster additionally contains The Trillium, the biggest workforce of Queen’s Park journalists protecting provincial politics and coverage on the Ontario Legislature.
Oakville Information was created greater than a decade in the past with the aim of offering residents with dependable, impartial journalism geared toward strengthening the group, celebrating native achievements and holding the municipal authorities to account. Village Media is happy to double down on that necessary mission with expanded, up-to-the-minute protection of the tales that matter most: those that hit closest to house.
“We are thrilled to be in Oakville, a town where people care deeply about the news and events happening around them,” says Jeff Elgie, CEO of Village Media. “We have inherited an amazing team and we’re looking forward to giving local residents even more of the quality local reporting they have come to expect from Oakville News.”
The editor of Oakville Information is Tyler Collins, a Sheridan Faculty graduate who started writing for the positioning in 2016, specializing in dwell occasion protection and leisure. Workers reporter Ben Brown joined the workforce final 12 months, protecting crime, enterprise and each different story that comes his means.
Born digital, Village Media is an business chief that operates on an modern, custom-built content material administration system developed in-house. Our hyperlocal web sites are free, super-fast and straightforward to navigate, whether or not you’re on a cellphone, pc or pill.
Extra importantly, every web site is a trusted supply of correct, fact-based journalism and different native info, together with climate stories, obituaries and categorized advertisements.
“When done with purpose and passion, local journalism has the power to connect and inform like nothing else can,” says Michael Friscolanti, Editor-in-Chief of Village Media. “We introduce you to fascinating neighbours and celebrate the things that make our communities wonderful, but we also ask the tough questions that deserve answers. When local news thrives, everyone benefits.”
If you have not already, make sure to join the Oakville Information free e-mail publication, which delivers the newest native headlines to your inbox each afternoon at 3 p.m., seven days every week.
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