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The decision was announced Monday on the publication’s website. The independently owned weekly, which circulates in Montreal and Toronto, will publish its last edition on June 20.
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?
Montreal-based La Presse has launched tablet edition of the French daily today for free, after investing $40 million. At a time of economic restraint, job losses and paywalls at other newspapers to make up advertising revenue shortfall, La Presse is taking a gamble in offering its tablet for free and hiring more than 220 employees, including 120 journalists, to work on the project.
April 18 marks Sun News Network's second birthday, but its days might be numbered. Media blogger Steve Faguy looks at why Sun News Network is unlikely to get its wish for mandatory carriage from the CRTC.
Cheques went out earlier in April, although not all contributors have been paid in full yet.
Postmedia is set to move into its new corporate HQ in Toronto on Dec. 1 this year. J-Source has an inside look at the construction and artist renderings of the new space at 365 Bloor St. E.
Revenues from Shaw’s media division were $249 million, up 3 percent from the preceding year, showing improved advertising and subscriber revenues.
Corus Entertainment, which owns news talk stations like CKNW and AM640, showed an 11 per cent decrease in revenue. Meanwhile, Astral recorded its 66th consecutive quarter of profit.
The Lance, the University of Windsor campus paper, received a temporary reprieve from the student government to print the final edition of the semester. The 85-year-old newspaper was ordered to end all its print productions immediately, following a decision made last Wednesday by the University of Windsor Student Alliance. But following student outcry and a Facebook campaign to save the newspaper, the board of directors has given the student newspaper until the end of the month to submit a new operating plan.
Kelly Toughill, J-Source business of journalism editor and director of the University King’s College’s School of Journalism, has been thinking a lot about the future of journalism in an increasingly digital universe. She takes a look at some of the excellent studies that have raised interesting questions about what works and what doesn’t.
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