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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.
Canadians still prefer the printed version of newspapers, but more of them are increasingly turning towards online to get their news fix. The latest numbers released by NADbank, an organization that measures newspaper readership for 83 newspapers in Canada, shows that almost 80 per cent of Canadians read a daily newspaper every week
The Toronto Star is testing the ebook market with a subscription model — a first for a Canadian newspaper. Launched in November, Star Dispatches ebooks are long-form journalism pieces that are produced weekly. In the first of a two-part series, Eric Mark Do looks at the business of ebook production, marketing and sales.
The Globe and Mail has introduced a voluntary "Flexible Time Awaw" program in an effort to balance the company’s season revenue and cost.
On Thursday, Leonard Asper, CEO of the now-defunct Canwest, stopped by the Winnipeg Free Press News Cafe to talk about the end of the company.
On the rise of custom content, Jonathan Sas asks: Is the increasing presence of content sponsored by advertisers in any news publication a sign that it is figuring out how to survive, or just evidence that it is so close to death that it is cannibalizing its own credibility to buy a bit more time?
Despite Sun Media shutting down a number of its weekly titles recently, community news experts and editors aren’t buying the idea that print is dead. As Ryan Mallough reports, there may be a number of reasons that print revenues are falling, but a focus on local news isn’t one of them.
In light of the news that Sun Media had laid off five regional publishers in Ontario, replacing them with advertising managers, Steve Ladurantaye turned to his former publisher to ask: What role do local publishers play in newspapers?
It’s not time to kill print entirely, but the industry has a slew of competitors and challenges that it must address. Eric Mark Do reports from the recent CJF J-Talk with a panel of Canadian newspaper editors, where they talked paywalls, digital strategy and plans to remain relevant and viable in a new media landscape.
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