You know it’s bad when your ‘business plan’ is also known as ‘CBC bloodbath.’ J-Source provides the details and links to information on English and French program cuts. If you want to see how the scene looks on the ground, visit Bill Stovin’s blog, which details the loss of Saskatchewan’s northern service. The Town Hall…
“After two newspapers that were older than ours, the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, folded within the past month, it’s clearer than ever that a proud past doesn’t ensure a prosperous future. We are feeling the same pressures as all newspaper companies. In fact, beyond the national economic problems and the industry turmoil,…
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Colette Brin, ProjetJ | Les commentaires des internautes devront désormais être approuvés avant d’être publiés sur les blogues de Cyberpresse, comme c’est déjà le cas pour plusieurs sites Web de journaux, dont le New York Times. Marie-Claude Lortie explique que cette mesure assurera qu’ils répondent “à des critères précis assurant leur qualité, leur pertinence et…
“When it comes to news about the news, no news is good news.” CBS takes a close look at what is happening to newspapers south of our border.
“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.”
Why is Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper courting American journalists when Canadian journalists, and our audience, are almost shut out?
“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…
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…
“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…