April
 2004

TORONTO - Ken Thompson, chairman and co-owner of The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, welcomed hundreds of guests celebrating the newspaper’s 160th anniversary. The Globe and Mail published its first issue March 5, 1844, using a 200-copy-per hour Washington hand press to produce a four-page issue with a print run of 300 copies.

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Today, the Globe and Mail is distributed nationally, contract printed by Transcontinental using presses from Goss International Corp. and Heidelberg. Front-page color came to the paper on a daily basis in July 1998.

By the end of this year, The Globe and Mail will have printed more than 48,000 issues since its inception.