Ken Shortt
	
Ken Shortt started a weekly Yukon newspaper in 1960 in competition to the //[Whitehorse] Star.// The new paper began as the  weekly //Advertiser// and was quickly renamed the //Yukon News.// Shortt had a full time job so the paper was put together in his spare time. In 1965, Shortt expanded the paper to a daily through a partnership with Dave Robertson who volunteered his time in order to learn the business. The partnership broke down after a year or so and Shortt found that trying to produce the //Yukon Daily News// by himself was too much so the paper went back to being a weekly in the late 1960s. By that time, Shortt was running the paper, a printing company, and a monthly magazine.((George Affleck, //Paper Trails: A History of British Columbia & Yukon Community Newspapers.// Arch Communications, 1999: 227-228.)) 

Shortt sold the newspaper to a group of businessmen but their skills were not up to the task and Shortt was compelled to buy the newspaper back. He built the readership back up and after a couple of years Dave Robertson bought the paper [in 1970]. By 1986, the //Yukon News// circulation surpassed the //Star’s// and was making a good and regular profit. In 1989, Robertson sold the paper to his son Steven who went on to lead the paper into awards for design and journalism.((George Affleck, //Paper Trails: A History of British Columbia & Yukon Community Newspapers.// Arch Communications, 1999: 227-228.))