Source: j-source.ca By Kelly Toughill, Business of Journalism editor Canadian newspapers gave readers a sharp reminder this week that advertisers – not subscribers – still rule the show in print. Four Postmedia newspapers and the Globe and Mail cancelled Labour Day publication because of low ad sales, theCanadian Press reported. Globe and Mail advertisers found out weeks ago about the change, but readers only learned Tuesday that they …
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Source: theguardian.com Orange County Register shocked the crisis-stricken industry with an ambitious experiment. One year later, the paper is celebrating Conventional media wisdom posits several ways for a newspaper to commit suicide. It can drive up costs by multiplying staff and pagination. It can prioritise print over digital. It can erect a hard paywall to seal itself from the internet. click …
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Source: my.chicagotribune.com By Robert Channick, Tribune staff reporter 10:14 am, May 30, 2013 The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, and plans to use freelance photographers and reporters to shoot photos and video going forward, the newspaper said. A total of 28 full-time staffers received the news Thursday morning at a meeting held at the Sun-Times offices in Chicago, …
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Source: j-source.ca The Winnipeg Free Press is restricting its online comments to print and online subscribers in an effort to keep “the e-party going without the party-crashers.” The newspaper’s editor Paul Samyn said the new commenting policy designed to reduce the “digital diatribe” will go into effect on June 3. “The thinking behind our policy change is the bulk of the ugliness that …
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Sun+ service predicted to result in drop in online ad revenue with NI also paying £30m-plus for digital Premier League rights Source: guardian.co.uk The Sun will need to attract more than 250,000 subscribers to its £2-per-week online service to cover the loss of online advertising and recoup the £30m-plus it paid for the digital Premier League football highlights, according to City analysts’ estimates. Follow …
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Source: mediaunion.ca Bargaining between Local 2000 and Black Press Lower Mainland was suspended Tuesday after company negotiators, for the second time, presented the union with a proposal for a five-year contract with no general wage increases. The company has proposed a one-time lump sum payment of 1% effective April 1, 2013, but only to employees at the top of their pay …
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Source: j-source.ca Kim Covert remembers the “dead silence,” broken by muffled crying. She and two dozen other copy editors were clumped around the large central table in Postmedia Network Inc.’s newswire office in Ottawa. The group, which gathered national and international news and copy edited it for use in Postmedia newspapers across the country, gaped at the company’s vice-president of editorial …
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Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Alan D. Mutter Several years ago, The Washington Post convened a series of focus groups to learn why most people younger than 45 did not subscribe to the newspaper — a problem persisting to this day throughout the overwhelmingly print-centric industry. It’s not that people didn’t like the Post, reported the American Journalism Review in a 2005 article describing the research project. The problem was …
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Source: thetyee.ca By ROBYN SMITH A former managing editor of the Vancouver Sun is the new president and publisher of the newspaper, as well as The Province, it was announced today. Gordon Fisher, most recently the president of the National Post, will now oversee the Pacific Newspaper Group, the company that manages the major B.C. dailies. “A major focus of this year’s …
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Source: poynter.org As this year begins, three notable reports share the same conclusion about the future of news: The path we are on is uncertain and debatable. But two of the three studies now see an extended economic shelf life for print, even as audiences swing digital and the search for viable digital news products continues. Click here to read entire story
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