“The Ann Arbor (Mich.) News will shut down at the end of July and three other Michigan dailies, The Flint Journal, The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times, will cut back their print publication days to three days a week.”
“When a rural weekly in Colorado folds, volunteers step up to fill the void. ‘It just beat the dickens out of sitting around whining,’ one says.”
“The National Newspaper Association today revealed that 4th quarter results confirm that local papers in the States are faring better than regional and national news titles. The data put together by the NNA in conjunction with the Suburban Newspapers Association (SNA) showed that whilst the industry averaged a 21% fall in advertising revenues at the…
Mother Jones asked Michael Pollan about the transition to being the public face of food activism. His response: You still have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. When Obama announced his pick for agriculture secretary I was disappointed, and I said so in some interviews. I got calls from very prominent…
Citizens of Gabriola Island want a community radio station, so they can hear local culture on the air and have the benefit of emergency broadcasting. Rogers Communications wants them to step aside for lite rock programming from Victoria, and has decided to speak against the islanders’ CRTC application. This brings to mind the work of…
AnalysisCanadian journalists need a shield law to protect their confidential sources and ensure the free flow of information. That’s the conclusion of Diana Ginsberg, a graduate student in media law at London’s City University who examined how courts in Canada and Britain deal with attempts to expose media sources. While finding no conclusive proof sources…
“While the current economy certainly poses challenges for all businesses, the newspaper industry will evolve, as it always has in the face of a changing media landscape that included the invention of radio, television and now the Internet.” An Ohio-based newspaper publisher assures his readers about the future of his 150-year old community newspaper.
Charlie Smith of Vancouver’s Georgia Straight wondered whether libertarian columnist Terence Corcoran, for whom broadcast regulators (well, most regulators) were favourite targets, continued to excoriate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission after CanWest took over his employer, the National Post. Noted Smith, “Corcoran found himself in the uncomfortable position where if he ripped into the…
“Squamish – The Chief has been named the best in Canada by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA). The Chief won best all-around newspaper in its circulation category, the CCNA announced Monday (March 16).”
The veteran newspaper entrepreneur, it appears, is one of the few people optimistic about the future of British local newspapers. Sir Ray has acquired five newspapers in the East Devon area from The View From Group, saving 25 jobs.