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8 Jan

Canadian Home & Country redesigned

Transcontinental’s Canadian Home & Country magazine is set to show off a redesign in the upcoming February/March 2009 issue, according to a report on Masthead Online. The redesign includes a […]

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7 Jan

Media adding to economic troubles: economic experts

“If (the media) keep saying the sky is falling, well, people think the sky is falling,” said Conference Board of Canada chief economist Glen Hodgson in a Canadian Press report. […]

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6 Jan

Masthead archives free Feb. 1

According to a post on the Canadian Magazines blog, Masthead Online has entered into a sponsorship deal with Texterity Inc. that will make the magazine’s print archives free. The free […]

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5 Jan

CAJ warns of “industry death spiral”

In the last three months 1200 jobs have been lost in the Canadian media business, and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is “deeply concerned” that the job cuts are […]

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5 Jan

CAJ exec director resigns

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) has announced the upcoming departure of executive director John Dickins. Dickins headed the CAJ’s efforts for the last ten years and is leaving the […]

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5 Jan

N.Y. Times sells front-page ads

As advertising revenues continue to tumble in the news business, The New York Times has agreed to display ads on the front page of the newspaper. The first ad, for […]

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23 Dec

Happy holidays

The J-Source team would like to wish our readers a happy holiday season. We are taking a break for a couple of weeks and the site will be back in […]

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22 Dec

And the winner is…

You’ve cast your votes and chosen the 2008 Canadian Newsperson of the Year. With 1479 votes tallied, Ken Whyte emerged as the clear winner with 59.9 per cent of the […]

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17 Dec

Toronto Star editor resigns

Toronto Star editor-in-chief Fred Kuntz is resigning, effective Dec. 31, the Financial Post reports. According to FP, several sources at the newspaper confirmed the news on Dec. 16, but a […]

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16 Dec

Sun Media cutting 10% work force

Quebecor Inc’s Canadian newspaper unit, Sun Media, announced 600 job cuts,  10 percent of its work force. Sun Media — which predicts the cuts will amount to $14 million in […]

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