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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 deepened losses were primarily due to a decrease in print advertising revenue, which has been shrinking faster than online advertising has been able to make up for.
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.
J-Source combed through the Ontario Sunshine list to see if any journalist or those in a related field make salaries above $100,000. Steve Paikin, the host of TVO's The Agenda, tops the list with a salary of 302,622.32
In a memo on Wednesday, Toronto Star union chair Stuart Laidlaw says radio room reporter salaries could be cut by approximately 20 per cent. The radio room costs about $250,000 to run annually.
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