Monthly Archives: February 2013

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Written on Feb, 22, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

Source  CMG  •  POSTED ON  February 20, 2013 Transcontinental Media, publisher of magazines such as Elle Canada and The Hockey News as well as dozens of community newspapers across the country, is trying to impose a harsh new contract on freelancers. The conditions Transcontinental is seeking undermine everyone in the sector. Transcontinental wants the same rights it gets for the work of employees …

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Written on Feb, 13, 2013 by in , , | Leave a comment

Source: mediaunion.ca Bargaining between Local 2000 and Black Press Lower Mainland was suspended Tuesday after company negotiators, for the second time, presented the union with a proposal for a five-year contract with no general wage increases. The company has proposed a one-time lump sum payment of 1% effective April 1, 2013, but only to employees at the top of their pay …

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Written on Feb, 12, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: j-source.ca Kim Covert remembers the “dead silence,” broken by muffled crying. She and two dozen other copy editors were clumped around the large central table in Postmedia Network Inc.’s newswire office in Ottawa. The group, which gathered national and international news and copy edited it for use in Postmedia newspapers across the country, gaped at the company’s vice-president of editorial …

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Written on Feb, 09, 2013 by in | Leave a comment

Source: theglobeandmail.com Value investors are thrifty folk who have a natural affinity for like-minded people. They detest CEOs who live it up on the backs of shareholders. Click here to read entire story

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Written on Feb, 06, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Alan D. Mutter Several years ago, The Washington Post convened a series of focus groups to learn why most people younger than 45 did not subscribe to the newspaper — a problem persisting to this day throughout the overwhelmingly print-centric industry. It’s not that people didn’t like the Post, reported the American Journalism Review in a 2005 article describing the research project. The problem was …

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