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22 Feb

Leonard Asper speaks about the demise of Canwest

<p><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.994318008422852px;">This post originally appeared on <a href="http://journomel.com/2013/02/21/leonard-asper-speaks-about-the-demise-of-canwest-2/" style="color: rgb(192, 2, 2); text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melanie Coulson's blog</a>, and has been reprinted here with permission.</em></p>

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30 Jan

On slipping custom content into newspapers’ revenue mix

<p><strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em;">By Jonathan Sas, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/01/28/Media-Custom-Content/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tyee</a></strong></p><p class="first" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 10px;">"I hate it. I hate doing it... It's not what I signed up for." That's the lament of a former Postmedia reporter assigned all too often to write "custom content."</p>

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19 Dec

The future of community news is in capturing the local

<p> </p><p><em>Despite Sun Media shutting down a number of its weekly titles recently, community news experts and editors aren’t buying the idea that print is dead. As <strong>Ryan Mallough </strong>reports, there may be a number of reasons that print revenues are falling, but a focus on local news isn’t one of them.</em></p><p><strong>By Ryan Mallough</strong></p><p>Print is dead, say the experts.</p><p>But don’t tell that to community newspapers.</p>

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25 Oct

The case for local publishers in local newspapers

<p>Yesterday, <strong>Steve Ladurantaye</strong> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/sun-media-dismisses-regional-publishers-in-reorganization/article4637645/">reported in <em>The Globe and Mail</em></a> that Sun Media had fired a number of regional publishers in Ontario and replaced them with advertising managers “whose sole focus will be on selling advertisements across broad geographic areas.” He reported that five publishers had been let go, including those at the <em>Kingston Whig-Standard</em>, <em>Peterborough Examiner</em> and <em>St.

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23 Oct

Don’t scrap the paper: J-Talk with Canadian newspaper editors

<p> </p><p>The newspaper is not dead, but the industry is facing a wide range of new competitors. Now — after losing half of its advertising revenue over the course of a decade — the newspaper industry is finding new ways to bring in revenue and deal with the competition, a panel of newspaper editors said Thursday evening.</p>

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18 Mar

2009 NADbank results show readership is stable (and even growing)

The 2009 results of NADbank’s annual newspaper readership study have been released and according to the report, papers have “demonstrated their value to Canadians.” The overview of results shows that […]

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16 Feb

What will the Shaw-Canwest deal mean?

When Canwest announced it had agreed to sell a controlling stake in the company to Calgary-based Shaw, the speculation began. In an article titled, “Future uncertain for CanWest’s newspaper chain,” […]

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10 Feb

Canwest sale “heats up”, Globe reports

The sale of Canwest Global Communications Corp. “will likely be completed by April,” The Globe and Mail reports, as two leading consortiums are preparing to make bids. According to sources […]

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28 Jan

Is Apple’s iPad “underwhelming” or “a game changer”?

After a whole lot of hype about Apple’s newest “creation,” the company launched the iPad yesterday in San Francisco. Even before the existence of the device had been confirmed, enthusiastic […]

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18 Jan

Trio to bid for three Canwest papers

Three Canadians involved in the media industry are preparing to bid for three Canwest papers, The Globe and Mail reports. The consortium is looking to buy the National Post, the […]

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