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5 Mar

Lawyers for Readers Digest explore bankruptcy filing

Media giant Readers Digest has hired a firm of lawyers to explore restructuring and possible bankruptcy, reports Bloomberg. The corporate web site of Reader’s Digest Association Inc. calls it “a […]

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5 Mar

Torstar lays off 60

Toronto Star parent company, Torstar Corp., has laid off 60 people as advertising revenues continue to slide. The bulk of the layoffs, according to a Globe and Mail report, are […]

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4 Mar

JdeM: élan de sympathie aux syndiqués

Selon un récent sondage Ipsos Décarie pour Branchez-vous, le degré de sympathie à l’égard des lock-outés du Journal de Montréal demeure sensiblement élevé chez les Québécois qui affirment supporter leur […]

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4 Mar

Expulsion chez Québec solidaire

Le parti Québec solidaire avait annoncé il y a déjà quelques semaines son appui aux journalistes en lock-out du Journal de Montréal. Au cours de son conseil national qui se […]

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4 Mar

Not the ending anyone envisioned

Tom Hawthorn explores the crisis in journalism with a profile of Vancouver native John Temple, editor of the American Rocky Mountain News, which closed this month. An excerpt from Hawthorn’s […]

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4 Mar

Global adds social media and goes late night in Toronto

Global Television has launched a new late night, one-hour news program in Toronto. News Hour Final, at 11 p.m., is hosted by Leslie Roberts. In addition to extending the the […]

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4 Mar

To web or not to web

Online publishing for a farm audience throws up a particular challenge. While urban-based journalists may be contemplating the virtues of using social networks such as Twitter to research and report […]

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4 Mar

A changing “ethos” at The Walrus

A new look, a trimmed staff and renewed fundraising efforts are just a few of the major changes at The Walrus magazine under new editor and co-publisher John Macfarlane. In […]

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3 Mar

Le Bloc plaide en faveur de Daniel Leblanc

Le Bloc Québécois a demandé au gouvernement fédéral d’intervenir pour éviter que le journaliste Daniel Leblanc ne soit forcé de dévoiler l’identité de la source “Ma Chouette”. Celle-ci lui a […]

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3 Mar

CTV cuts 118 jobs at A Channel

CTV Television Inc. announced that it is restructuring at a number of its “A” branded stations, which will include cancellation of some morning programs and evening newscasts as well as […]

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