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    CBC covers Alberta weeklies closing

    “A Montreal-based media conglomerate has stopped printing two small Alberta newspapers, and the office of another paper has been closed. The front-page headline on this week’s Nanton News is “What recession?” and the story explains that the town of 2,200 south of Calgary is dodging economic problems elsewhere.”

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    One Maryland community newspaper reveals it strategy to survive

    “Maryland’s newspapers are not immune from the pressures facing all U.S. papers, as once-strong publications teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, trimming staff and operations or shutting down their presses completely. In the past year, the state has seen the demise of two papers — The Baltimore Examiner in February and The Dispatch in Emmitsburg…

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    Montreal Monitor ceases print publication

    Transcontinental Inc. announced that it has ended the printing of The Monitor, one of its free English-language Montreal newspapers, servicing the communities of NDG, Cote St. Luc, Hampstead and Montreal West. The 83-year-old paper, with a circulation of 35,000, published its last print issue on Feb. 4, 2009, and has moved exclusively to an online…

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    Is the future of newspapers non-profit status?

    “Steve Coll, a veteran journalist of The Washington Post who is now a New Yorker staff writer, proposed in his New Yorker blog Think Tank that nonprofit will and should be in the future of newspapers because it will foster “the professional, civil-service-style, relentless independent thinking, reporting, and observation that developed in big newsrooms between…

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    Magazine readership slips slightly

    Readership of Canadian magazines is down less than three per cent since last year, according to figures released by the Print Measurement Bureau. Reader’s Digest has the largest readership and CAA Magazine has the largest circulation.

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    Does B.C. Business Magazine have credibility?

    B.C. journalist and blogger Sean Holman takes Peter Legge, publisher of B.C. Business Magazine, to task for an unabashed — and unannounced — promo of the politician Legge supports in the upcoming election.

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    Canadian newspaper readership ‘stable’

    Readership of Canadian newspapers remains strong despite the financial problems plaguing the industry, according to figures released today by NADbank. Almost half of Canadian adults read a newspaper on an average weekday and weekly readership of newspapers in large markets has changed little during the past five years, the newspaper research organization reported. Meanwhile, the Canadian Circulation Audit Board also…