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"Following last week’s significant editorial shift, the Globe and Mail with new editor-in-cheif John Stackhouse at the helm is delivering on the promise to “expand the newspaper’s digital strategy.”

The first community to benefit will be the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto city editor Kelly Grant announced the launch of a new web property — globeandmail.com/toronto  and a partnership with comprehensive, hyper-local Toronto blog, Torontoist.com:

With the launch of our new virtual home, we’re also rolling out a slew of groundbreaking online features."

"Canstar Community News Ltd., a division of FP Newspapers Limited Partnership, is expanding its stable of community newspapers in Winnipeg and the surrounding area from five to six.

Bob Cox, publisher of Canstar and the Free Press, said its Lance and Metro products were covering increasingly larger areas of south Winnipeg so the decision was made to split their geographies in three and add a new paper so area readers would receive news that's as close to home as possible."

"Here’s the second of our videos from inside the research and development lab at The New York Times Co., where they’re envisioning how news will be consumed in two to ten years. (You can catch up on the series here.) Some of the goodies you’ll notice: a Samsung tablet, an iPhone, a Sony Bravia TV, and an application called CustomTimes that they’ve developed to work on all three devices."

On May 14, policymakers and media activists gathered at the Newseum in Washington (DC) to discuss America's communications future. Keynote speakers noted that we cannot think about the future of any one media policy in isolation. For too long, our media system has been shaped by policies - for media ownership, broadband deployment, public media funding - that were made in silos, cordoned off from one another. The different agencies, different laws, and different priorities that have guided these discussions have left us with a media system that is disjointed and in crisis."