Nunatsiaq News

Since 1972, Nunatsiaq News has been the first source for news, features and opinion about the Eastern Arctic. Founded as a local Iqaluit newspaper, Nunatsiaq News was purchased by Nortext Publishing Corporation in 1985 and has since expanded, its print circulation now reaching over 40 communities and its web edition attracting 70,000 visits per week from readers across the North, in southern Canada, and around the world. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, including the closing of printing plants and reduction in flights, the print edition is currently suspended. Since the suspension, visitors to our website have increased by 30% and many readers now receive the "printed" layout in an emailed PDF edition or an e-edition on our website. On the web, Nunatsiaq News is published in English with some Inuktitut content and ads. Its print edition is published in Inuktitut and English. Inuktitut - the language of Inuit - is an official language and by far the most widely used language in both Nunavut, Canada's newest territory, and Nunavik (arctic Quebec). Nunatsiaq News serves all 26 communities and 38,000 residents in Nunavut, and the 15 communities and 12,000 Inuit who call Nunavik home, publishing in Inuktitut and English every Friday. Our online version of the paper publishes articles half a dozen times a day, each article attracting comments from readers. In our paper, Nunavut and Nunavik government advertising, as well as most private-sector advertising, is published in both English and Inuktitut. In Nunavik ads are published in English and Inuttitut (the local dialect of Inuktitut). When appropriate, Nunatsiaq News publishes French-language articles of interest to the large Francophone population living in both areas. Our readers believe they have a right to be served in their language of choice, and they appreciate the newspaper and the advertisers that recognize this right.