North American newspapers will lose a third of their advertising revenue over the next three years, according to a new report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.Canadian papers will fare better than newspapers south of the border, but both face steep declines in display advertising, according to Global Entertainment & Media Outlook: 2009 – 2013. The newspapers will lose…
Half of the local and regional newspapers in the United Kingdom will close by 2013, an expert witness told a House of Commons Committee.Claire Enders, of Enders Analysis, predicted a 52 per cent drop in advertising revenue for UK newspapers between 2007 and 2012, according to a report in the Guardian.
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American broadcast journalist Mike Walter has made a documentary short that has already garnered interest in both the US and Australia. Formerly with CBS Washington, Walter was on his way to work on 9/11 when he saw an American Airlines plane head towards the Pentagon — a day that changed his life. Breaking News, Breaking…
Computer-Assisted Reporting was a big part of this year’s winning Michener Award entry. The CBC and the Canadian Press teamed up to analyze Taser use by police officers across Canada, building a unique database from use-of-force reports obtained from police forces across the country. Read the press release from Government House here.The reporters analyzed the…
Reporters from across Canada are headed to Halifax for the second annual University of King’s College Summer School in Computer-Assisted Reporting.The school is sponsored by the Canadian Newspaper Association and is the only “boot camp” style CAR training available in Canada. CAR skills give you a leg up in today’s brutal journalism job market by…
Have we hit bottom yet? Two recent media business developments suggest not. La Presse will no longer publish on Sundays, effective June 28, reported the Globe and Mail. Standard and Poor Poor’s deleted Torstar Corp. from its Canadian composite index, effective Monday June 15. (The rating agency deleted Canwest earlier.)
Associated Press will distribute stories produced by four non-profit news organizations that specialize in investigative reporting – ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Center for Investigative Reporting. It’s a six-month experiment sparked in part by a desire to stem the growing void of investigative reporting resulting from financial cuts among AP’s member news organizations. Hmmm, a legacy…
Twitter may be a hot subject in many newsrooms, but in the real world … not so much. A recent survey of Canadians by Ipsos-Reid found just 26 per cent of respondents had ever heard of Twitter and only a teeny-tweety-tiny 1.45 per cent actually use it. Said a polling company spokesman: “The buzz (to) usage ratio is sort of…