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Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Alan D. Mutter Newspapers are so bad at digital publishing that they should just give up and focus on print. That’s the bracing thesis of a recently published mini-book from journalism professor H. Iris Chyi of the University of Texas, who likens what she calls the “inferior quality” of online newspaper offerings to the ramen noodles gobbled …

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Written on Oct, 02, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

Source: j-source.ca Staff at the Alberni Valley Times were told on Sept 30 that the paper would close in 60 days. By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor The Alberni Valley Times will close by the end of 2015. On Sept. 30, parent company Black Press gave staff 60 days’ notice that the paper will close. The Alberni Valley Times serves a community …

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Written on Sep, 29, 2015 by in , | Leave a comment

Dear Members:  The Guild has ratified the new four year collective agreement after meetings were held at 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. today. Unifor, which represents our Compositors and Pressmen, and CWA-SCA  Mailers also ratified the new contract last week. Thank you for the great turnout by our members. Regards, Deb England Bill Cleverley Grant Wittkamp Deborah Service-Brewster Chris Carolan

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Written on Sep, 23, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

Source: cwa-scacanada.ca President acknowledges for first time that CBC’s very existence at risk due to funding cuts Eight years into overseeing a massive and unprecedented downsizing of the CBC — the most ruthless in the public broadcaster’s 80-year history, with more than 2,000 or 25 per cent of staff laid off in five years and no end in sight — President Hubert Lacroix now says …

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Written on Sep, 23, 2015 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: nytimes.com LOS ANGELES — In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company, took his senior management team to visit The Los Angeles Times, the jewel in his company’s portfolio of newspapers. At a reception at the newspaper, and a dinner downtown, there was one notable absentee — The Times’s new publisher, Austin Beutner. At meetings the next day, …

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Source:editorandpublisher.com by: Rob Tornoe In the days before the Internet, news stories didn’t have much more shelf life than the newspaper they were printed in. Other than microfilm, your mother’s scrapbook or the occasional restaurant wall, most content in the paper died as the pages hit the trash can, replaced by the offerings printed in the next day’s edition. Today, …

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Written on Sep, 23, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

Dear fellow CWA Canada members, We’re less than a month away from the federal election – an election that will be pivotal to us and to our families as working people and as Canadians. It is vital that we all understand the issues in this campaign so that we can make informed choices. Do we want a government that supports workers, decent …

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Written on Sep, 22, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

The joint Council of Newspapers has reached a tentative agreement with the company. Membership meeting with details will be posted in the next few Days

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Written on Aug, 28, 2015 by in , , | Leave a comment

Staff August 26, 2015 NewsGuild-CWA           Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed while doing a live TV interview Wednesday morning.   The following statement was issued jointly by NewsGuild, NABET and CWA: THIS morning’s senseless tragedy in Roanoke, Va., struck close to home for the journalists and other news media workers …

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Written on Aug, 25, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

Source:theglobeandmail.com When Postmedia Network Canada Corp. sealed its $316-million purchase of the bulk of the Sun newspaper chain in April, its chief executive officer cast the deal as a necessary step to scale up and compete in the ever-more-crowded market for digital news. Analysts too hailed the acquisition as a smart move that bought Postmedia breathing room as it tries …

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