Monthly Archives: December 2014

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Written on Dec, 17, 2014 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: timescolonist.com Glacier Media Inc. has sold its Vancouver Island Newspaper Group to Victoria-based Black Press. Black Press takes operational control of that group on March 2. That includes Cowichan Valley Citizen, Nanaimo Daily News and Alberni Valley Times. The sale does not include the Times Colonist. – read the entire story here

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Written on Dec, 15, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

New governance is the best Rx, but there’s more to do as listeners and viewers. Source: By Nick Fillmore, 11 Dec 2014, TheTyee.ca The CBC, and particularly CBC Radio, is easily Canada’s most important cultural and public interest institution. I say this not so much as someone who worked at the Corporation during the glory days of the 1970s and ’80s …

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Written on Dec, 11, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Source:editorandpublisher.com by: Alan D. Mutter American publishers and editors have only themselves to blame for failing to connect with the millennial generation that they—and most of their advertisers—covet the most. The inability of newspapers to resonate with digital natives has left them with a daunting demographic challenge. Two-thirds of the audience at the typical newspaper is composed of people over …

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Written on Dec, 06, 2014 by in , , | Leave a comment

Source:mediaunion.ca DEC 5, 2014 On Monday, December 8th, at 2pm – BC Fed President, Irene Lanzinger and Secretary Treasurer, Aaron Ekman will be joining the picket line in support of our strike at the Cowichan News Leader Pictorial. The main issue is the employer’s insistence on a two tier wage system.We are asking our members and other locals to come …

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Written on Dec, 02, 2014 by in , , , | Leave a comment

Source: cheknews.ca News clip video here Unionized Employees at the Cowichan Leader News Pictorial are on the picket line. The employees’ job action started Monday morning and it has to with the top rate of pay. Black Press wants to eliminate it for new hires but the union says that’s a terrible plan. Kendall Hanson reports.  

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Written on Dec, 02, 2014 by in , , | Leave a comment

Source: cowichanvalleycitizen.com Twelve employees at the Cowichan News Leader Pictorial newspaper in Duncan took to the picket lines on Monday in a dispute over proposed changes to their pay structure. The strike is about blocking the implementation of a two-tier wage system by management, said Unifor Local 2000 representative Peter McQuade. Right now, employees’ wages increase over time through a classification …

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