Town Crier Information

The Town Crier is a group of Toronto-based community newspapers now published by Multimedia Nova Corporation. The newspaper is distributed in seven editions to nine communities throughout the city of Toronto. Started in 1979 by Harry Goldhar, a Toronto Star journalist, the Town Crier group has changed owners and titles over the years. The late Dan Iannuzzi was the owner of the Town Crier from 2001 until his death in 2004. Iannuzzi’s company bought the Town Crier newspapers in 2001 from Beaches resident Julie Morris, who had previously acquired them from Leaside residents Harry and Ruth Goldhar who had founded the papers with an East York-based edition in 1978. At Iannuzzi's death in November 2004 the papers had expanded to nine editions that covered an area of over 287,000 homes and nearly a million residents in Toronto. As of 2009/08/16 the Town Crier publishes nine editions serving affluent or up-and-coming neighbourhoods in Toronto: Bayview Mills, Beach-South Riverdale, Riverdale-East York, Bloor West, Forest Hill, Leaside-Rosedale, North Toronto, North York and MidTown. The Town Crier website provides two different start dates for the newspaper in separate articles: 1978 and 1979.