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It is dinosaur thinking to consider yourself a newspaper, writes Melanie Coulson. You are a news organization, committing fantastic acts of journalism online, on tablets, on smartphones and social media. The inky print product is but one platform. The NNAs, sadly, don’t recognize this.
Postmedia Network rolled out online paywalls on all 10 of its dailies Tuesday, following a two-year pilot project. Readers will be introduced to the paywalls with an advertising campaign, including full-page wraps on all Postmedia newspapers and TV spots starting this week, the company announced in a press release.
Newspapers Canada is considering a plan put forth by the Ontario Press Council to establish a national press council. The decision comes after a Ryerson University study on the state of press councils in Canada, which concluded the press councils were ineffective in their present form and did not meet the geographical and digital realities of the publishing industry.
With ad dollars falling, newspapers have responded by cutting desk staff. In an era when the Toronto Sun misspells "Correction" in a correction column, is there any hope for a revival of good copyediting and can newspapers maintain their credibility?
Publisher and co-founder John Cameron said tonight had been chasing after this deal with the since its inception four years ago.
In a bluntly worded memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Pacific Newspaper Group president and publisher Gordon Fisher said the two newspapers have seen an “alarming and unprecedented revenue declines.” Now staff at the two newspapers are bracing themselves for impending layoffs, the details for which have yet to be released.
Even as Postmedia engages in cost cutting measures to make up for advertising revenue shortfall, its employees incurred U.S. and international roaming charges in excess of $100,000, with some individual users racking up bills of $10,000.
The memo doesn’t outline the target savings the newspaper hopes to achieve from the buyouts, but Crawley told staff at a town hall meeting that “If we get 60, I’ll be happy,” The Globe and Mail reported. “That number would represent about 8 per cent of The Globe’s 770 employees,” The Globe said.
The Barbie fascination, the I-team obsession and the musician. If you haven’t yet picked up May issue of the Toronto Life, you’ll want to: Front cover: a sweaty Rob Ford; Inside profile: Toronto Star editor-in-chief Michael Cooke, definitely not sweaty. It’s definitely a juicy issue with lots of interesting tidbits for journalists.
Do you know many daily newspapers are there in Canada? Which newspaper brings in the highest readers in each province? Which media company has the highest share of the daily average circulation?
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