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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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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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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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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Source: jpress.journalism.ryerson.ca Associate Editor Tamara Baluja has obtained memos sent by Postmedia Network and Sun Media to their respective employees. CEO Paul Godfrey notes that Postmedia Network has agreed to buy 175 English language publications from Sun Media. Today we announced perhaps the biggest news in the Canadian news media industry since the day Postmedia was formed. Our company has entered …
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Source: nanaimo-info-blog.com Mark MacDonald Leaves Daily News With the resignation of Hugh Nicholson and now Mark MacDonald it will be interestingto see what, if anything changes with Nanaimo’s oldest newspaper.I went into the Daily to deliver a press release about my council bid and asked to speak to the editor, Mark MacDonald. The receptionist paged Mark and soon another staffer came …
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Source: ca.news.yahoo.com By Cathy Bussewitz, The Associated Press HONOLULU, Hawaii – The owner of Hawaii’s largest newspaper bought two daily publications on Hawaii’s Big Island and several newspapers in Washington state. Oahu Publications, which owns the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, said Wednesday it is buying West Hawaii Today and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald from Las Vegas-based Stephens Media. read the entire story here
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Source: washingtonpost.com Citing a “sea of bloated mid-level copy,” Associated Press Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano last week instructed fellow editors at the wire service to limit most “daily, bylined digest stories” to a length of between 300 and 500 words. Top stories from each state, Carovillano directed, should hit the 500 to 700-word range, and the “top global …
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Source: thetyee.ca Look who’s lobbying for the struggling newspaper industry. British Columbia biggest daily and weekly publishers have hired a key member of the BC Liberals’ 2013 re-election campaign in a last-ditch effort to change Environment Minister Mary Polak’s mind about the imposition of a hidden tax on newsprint. Dimitri Pantazopoulos registered to lobby Polak on behalf of Pacific Newspaper Group, …
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Source: theglobeandmail.com In a shrinking industry, and on a struggling island, the Chronicle Herald, one of the last independently owned major metropolitan newspapers in the country, is making a bold move. “No one has come right out and said I’m crazy,” said Mark Lever, the newspaper president and CEO. “I’m sure they think it.” read more of the story here
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