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John Shmuel, Financial Post · Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 Source: financialpost.com Newspapers will certainly survive well into the future, but that survival is going to rely on finding increasingly new and innovative ways to monetize their content — and not just putting up pay walls. Finding a happy middle was the message that came through most strongly during the Media …

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Women experienced disproportionately more gains in unionized jobs. by NUPGE Ottawa, November 8, 2010 — Statistics Canada reports that just over 4.2 million employees belonged to a union in Canada during the first half of 2010, up 64,000 from the same period last year. Union membership rose at a slightly faster pace than total employment. As a result, the nation’s …

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Times Colonist trio honoured for court series.

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Canadian Labour and Business Centre Leadership Survey Management and labour leaders in the public and private sectors, asked what they considered were the most important indicators of a healthy workplace, identified the following top five indicators: Business/Management Labour Good Working Relationships (70%) Good Working Relationships (75%) High Morale (69%) High Morale (70%) Ability to Attract & Retain Employees (60%) Balance …

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Newspaper numbers show “stable” Canadian print markets | Media News.

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 A research company says the most profitable articles engage readers, with topics like unemployment and mortgage rates high on the list. By JEREMY W. PETERS Published: October 17, 2010 Sure, articles about Lindsay Lohan’s repeat trips to rehabilitation and Brett Favre’s purported sexual peccadilloes generate loads of reader traffic, but do they actually make decent money for the Web sites …

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Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 17 October 2010 There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in newspaper circulation. Some papers are growing in both formats, others are succeeding in neither, according to new research. The woe, as usual, is more or less unconfined. September’s daily newspaper circulation figures, as audited by ABC, are …

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Just a quick note to remind our members that the Times Colonist Employees’ United Way Campaign is fast approaching. In these times of economic uncertainty, those hit hardest are those who can least afford it. We are fortunate here at the Times Colonist in that our regular employees have the opportunity to make contributions through payroll deduction. This makes it …

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Bernie Lunzer, TNG-CWA President 23 Sep 2010 newsguild.org Discretionary pay has been a perennial issue for organized labor and is currently part of the assault on teachers’ unions. Recently, the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting published a worthwhile article, “First, Bash the Teachers,” that examined how even well-meaning reformers buy into the “merit pay” myth. To quote …

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