Category : Media & Publishing

Written on Mar, 04, 2016 by in | Leave a comment

Panel head Hedy Fry remains optimistic, but journalism advocate says action comes too late. Source: By Jeremy J. Nuttall, 2 Mar 2016, TheTyee.ca A national study determining whether Canadians are being well served by local news media began collecting testimony last week, but critics say the panel led by Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry may be too little, too late. Fry …

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Written on Jan, 26, 2016 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: times colonist.com The Nanaimo Daily News will stop publishing next week, ending 141 years in business. See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/

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Email offers ‘full time contracts of up to four months,’ work from home without bylines   Source:cbc.ca Please click here to read story

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Written on Jan, 08, 2016 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: pewresearch.com Click to read entire story here This weekend, Boston Globe editorial employees received an unusual request: Could anyone run a paper route? Due to problems with the paper’s new distributor, some home subscribers had not received their print editions. About 200 Globe workers responded to the call, and hand-delivered copies to local residents. Although the paper announced Tuesday that it was returning to its …

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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 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 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 Jul, 25, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

The Honolulu Civil Beat and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser both introduced paywalls a couple of years ago. Now their strategies are showing signs of stagnation. Source:niemanlab.org It was billed as the Pugnacious Polynesian Paywall Punch-Up. Honolulu Civil Beat, a local news site backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, launched in 2010 with an ad-free business model built on digital subscriptions. About a …

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

Source: cowichanvalleycitizen.com When David Rubenstein, known affectionately by his friends, colleagues and clients as Dave, or Ruby, started at the Cowichan Valley Citizen some 29 years ago, he had no idea he would become such an intrinsic part of the community paper. Coming to the job from a background of radio announcing (he had that deep radio voice voice), he soon …

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