The Mennonite Reporter was first published in Waterloo, Ontario in 1971 under the name Canadian Mennonite Reporter. It was established in order to replace the recently-discontinued newspaper The Canadian Mennonite, which was based out of Manitoba. The Mennonite Conference of Ontario, the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, and a group of 65 individual churches headed by Aaron Klassen all pledged funds to the new national newspaper, sometimes even at the expense of their conference periodicals.
While the first few issues of the Mennonite Reporter were published on a monthly basis, issues began to appear on a bi-weekly basis in October of 1971 on a schedule that would last for the rest of the publication's life. Like The Canadian Mennonite before it, the Mennonite Reporter had an inter-Mennonite focus, reporting on topics both within the community and beyond. Alongside news reports, the Reporter ran devotional columns, features on the arts, analyzed socio-political issues, and published letters sent in by readers to encourage debate.
The Mennonite Reporter moved from an independent publication to one linked to the Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC) in the mid-1990s, before ultimately being replaced by Canadian Mennonite magazine towards the end of the decade. The final issue was published on September 1, 1997.
Loewen Reimer, Margaret. "Mennonite Reporter (Periodical)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. December 2011. Web. 20 Dec 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mennonite_Reporter_(Periodical)&oldid=166493