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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Source: thestar.com At least two Rogers-owned publications have dropped their internship programs, the Star has learned. In a pre-emptive move, interns at Flare and Chatelaine who were either unpaid or receiving a $400 monthly honorarium were let go Tuesday. Click here to read entire story
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Source: rsf.org/ The International Partnership Mission on safety and protection of journalists and press freedom in Ukraine, currently in Kiev, strongly condemns the violence that today claimed the life of Vesticorrespondent Vyacheslav Veremyi and left at least 27 journalists injured. The delegation of national and international freedom of expression and media support groups, which includes Reporters Without Borders, calls on the Ukrainian authorities to …
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The more investigative reporters sacked, the less incentive the rest have to probe. Source : By Sean Holman, Yesterday, TheTyee.ca Postmedia’s decision to torch its parliamentary bureau last week will inevitably compromise the newspaper chain’s ability to produce investigative public affairs reporting. There will be fewer hands to file access to information requests, fewer eyes to read public records and fewer minds to …
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Source: j-source.ca By Kathleen Kuehn Last March, an editor from The Atlantic approached freelance journalist Nate Thayer about repurposing an article he’d published elsewhere for the news magazine’s website. Unfortunately, the editor informed him, freelance funds had run out. In lieu of payment, the opportunity would offer Thayer “exposure” to The Atlantic’s 13 million monthly readers. Outraged by the proposition that …
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Dear Local President, I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the John Belcarz and Dan Zeidler post-secondary education/training memorial scholarships. Two scholarships of $1,000 each are available. The accompanying attachments contain a poster and application form in both English and French (also available on our website: http://www.cwa-scacanada.ca. Please circulate this information to your members. In …
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Source: thetyee.ca Glacier’s Kamloops paper shut down despite company profit margins above 30 per cent. Vancouver-based Glacier Media, which recently gave notice it will close the long-publishing Kamloops Daily News, enjoys profit margins above 30 per cent, according to financial reports available on its website. It also reportedly pays its top executives millions of dollars a year and pays its directors $1,000 for …
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Source: vancouversun.com The Kamloops Daily News is closing due to declining revenues and high costs, but the industry says this does not signal distress in the daily newspaper business as a whole. “This is the first major market paid daily that we’ve seen close in recent memory,” Newspapers Canada president and CEO John Hinds said. Read more:
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By Martin O’Hanlon CWA Canada Director I’m going to make a bold prediction for 2014: the tide will finally begin to turn. It will turn for newspapers, which have been through the worst and will begin to see revenues climb again. It will turn for the Harper government (it already has really) which has been attacking labour, the CBC, and …
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