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…
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.
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.
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…
CBC to cut up to 800 jobs, sell assets….
“Gannett Co. Inc, which is already mandating a one week, unpaid furlough for most of its employees this quarter, has ordered another unpaid furlough for many employees in the second quarter. The company will also temporarily cut salaries for some of its higher-paid employees.”
“With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, a Democratic senator on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.”
“Likewise, local activists have relied on community newspapers for accurate unbiased reporting. With little or no money to buy publicity, environmental activists, like Love Canal’s Lois Gibbs, scribbled outraged but informed Letters to the Editor, or sponsored public meetings and protests that were sure to attract a reporter from the local paper. That’s one way…
An American senator introduced a bill that would allow newspapers to choose tax-exempt status, and operate as non-profits similar to public broadcasting stations. Such newspapers “would no longer be able to make political endorsements, but could report on all issues including political campaigns,” reported Associated Press The bill is aimed at preserving local newspapers, not…