Brant Kersey

Brant Raymond Kersey (born May 19, 1978) is the Saskatchewan publisher of seven newspapers. He was born in the town of Invermere, British Columbia and grew up in Radium Hot Springs with his parents, Bryan and Joanne and two older brothers, Jade and Dustin.

Brant migrated to Saskatchewan in the mid 90's to play junior hockey for the Estevan Bruins of the SJHL. During he tenure with the Bruins Brant was a captain of a team that won the SJHL championship, Anavet Cup Championship and attended the Royal Bank Cup.

After his three year stint with the Estevan Bruins Brant attended college in Wisconsin, U.S.A.. There he received his B.A. communication with an emphasis in journalism.

Following college Brant returned to Estevan to work for the Estevan Mercury, a strong weekly newspaper publication in southeast Saskatchewan. He worked there for a few years before venturing off to a new position and title for the Wheat City Journal in Brandon, Manitoba. There he did sales.

In July 2006 Brant, with his wife Jennifer, started their own company and purchased four newspapers: The Canora Courier (Canora, SK); [cite web
author = Peter Josselyn
title = New owners at Canora Courier papers
publisher = Canadian Community Newspapers Association
url = http://www.communitynews.ca/news/details.asp?contentID=2073
date = November 7, 2006
accessdate = 2008-03-23 ] Preeceville Progress (Preeceville, SK) Norquay North Star (Norquay, SK) and Kamsack Times (Kamsack, SK).

It wasn't long until Brant and Jennifer added their fifth publication by purchasing the Kipling Citizen (Kipling, SK).

Brant was also recruited to publish two other publications for Glacier Ventures International Corp. He is now the publisher of the "Thompson Citizen" (Thompson, MB) and the "Nickel Belt News" (Thompson, MB).

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External links

* [http://www.swna.com/?page=mdetail&ID=30 Sask Weekly Newspaper Association]
* [http://www.estevanbruinsalumni.com/members1.html Estevan Bruins Alumni - Members A-D]