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19 Nov

Enforcing image copyright

One of the biggest problems for independent photographers and companies owning the copyright of images has been the illegal and unauthorized use of their pictures. Not just in editorial use but commercially also. […]

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19 Nov

Media bloodletting

“TIME Inc. today becomes not a publisher of magazines but of pink slips instead,” reports the New York Post. The Post says 250 will be laid off today, part of […]

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19 Nov

Layoffs and hiring freeze to come at CTV

CTV staff are scheduled to gather with company CEO Ivan Fecan on Nov. 19 in a town hall-style meeting to find out details about upcoming cutbacks, operational changes and a […]

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19 Nov

Opinion – Quebecor a gagné

Patrick Déry, Le Trente | On a fait grand cas des journalistes permanents qui n’apportaient pas leur compétence habituelle à la confection du Journal de Québec pendant le long lock-out […]

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19 Nov

Murdoch ne croit pas à la fin des journaux

Marc-André Brouillard, Branchez-Vous | Le dirigeant de News Corporation croit plutôt que les journaux atteindront de nouveaux sommets au 21e siècle. L’avenir des journaux ne serait pas menacé selon le […]

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18 Nov

The assassination of Tara Singh Hayer

It’s been a decade now since Tara Singh Hayer was shot dead. The first most significant thing about Hayer’s assassination, seems to me, is the fact that he was publisher […]

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18 Nov

Rupert Murdoch is optimistic

Bon mots from Rupert Murdoch’s radio address for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (is the News Corp. chair trying to buy that too?), in which he argues newspaper industry doomsayers are […]

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18 Nov

Dying newsroom

Now this is just sad: a Mother Jones photo essay of a dying newsroom. Pictures are worth 1,000 words — especially when there are no more words being written.

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18 Nov

Transcon buys Redwood

Transcontinental Inc. has acquired Redwood Custom Communications, a Toronto-based custom communications firm. Transcon president and CEO François Olivier said in a press release: “Transcontinental’s primary goal is to help our […]

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18 Nov

Publishers’ summit: newspapers officially in crisis

A summit of U.S. newspaper publishers produced grim news last week, with one expert saying that the industry is in the fourth stage of a five-stage process toward dissolution.  Corporate […]

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