NEGOTIATIONS WITH GLACIER MEDIA COMMENCE JUNE 29 Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions Negotiations between the Victoria Times Colonist and the Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions will commence on Friday, June 29, 2012. The CEP (Compositors, Platemakers and Pressmen) will be the first of the Unions to meet the company to discuss their “peculiar” issues. Further meetings will be scheduled …
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Source: canada.com Restructuring at the Nanaimo Daily News has resulted in a change in the publisher’s office for the 138-year-old flagship newspaper. Hugh Nicholson takes over immediately as publisher of the Daily News, Harbour City Star and their digital counterparts. Nicholson joined the Vancouver Island Newspaper Group in January, representing Glacier Media Inc. as the division manager. read entire story here
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Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Jeff Fleming Local news continues to be the mainstay when it comes to solving newspapers’ 21st century challenges. The newest report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project revealed that “72 percent of adults are quite attached to following local news and information, and local newspapers are by far the …
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Source: cwa-scacanada.ca Postmedia is slashing dozens of editorial jobs at the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen, which will also cease publication of its Sunday paper in July. “It’s a pretty bleak day for journalism,” said a dispirited Debbie Cole, president of the Ottawa Newspaper Guild, which will lose 20 members to buyouts and layoffs. Martin O’Hanlon, Director of CWA Canada, …
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Two university students at opposite ends of the country are the winners of this year’s Belcarz-Zeidler Memorial Scholarships. Stephanie Rufh, the daughter of Gord Rufh, a member of Local 30403 who works at the Victoria Times-Colonist, chose chemistry as the topic of her essay, which is also her field of study at her home-town university. Rosamund Tutton, of Dartmouth, …
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Source: mediaunion.ca The Vancouver Sun and Province are getting out of the insert business effective July 15, 2012, a move that will cost over 50 Local 2000 members their jobs. Management informed the union about the move on Monday, saying that the insert business was on track to lose almost $1 million this year. Only about 12 members will be eligible for relocation …
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Source: reuters.com (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Overview — We are revising our outlook on Toronto-based Postmedia Network Inc. to negative from stable based on the company’s weaker-than-expected operating performance in the second quarter ended Feb. 29, 2012. — We are affirming all our ratings on the company, including our ‘B’ long-term corporate credit rating. — The …
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Source: poynter.org “60 Minutes” | Nieman Reports | YouTube Samantha Swindler, then 27, had been managing editor of the Corbin (Ky.) Times-Tribune for about three years when she asked 20-year-old Adam Sulfridge to report on a corrupt sheriff, Lawrence Hodge, who was involved in trading guns, drugs and favors. At the time, Sulfridge was a local college sophomore “whose only experience was working on his …
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Source: straightgoods.ca Watchdogs need more teeth as well as public and industry support. Dateline: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 by John Gordon Miller, Ryerson University In a new questionnaire about the future of press councils in Canada, we are asked, “In your opinion, how accountable are news organizations to the publics they serve?” I suspect almost no one will answer “very accountable.” …
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Source:theglobeandmail.com The Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun are putting up online paywalls and the National Post will sell its headquarters as Postmedia Network Inc.(PNC.B-T3.50-0.50-12.50%) struggles in a bleak advertising market that it doesn’t see improving any time soon. Read full story here
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