Written on Mar, 01, 2013 by in | Leave a comment

Source: sgnews.ca Or: Why I am no longer writing the column I loved, for theToronto Star. by Ann Douglas Three weeks ago, I was confronted with one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make in my career as a freelance writer: sign a highly objectionable freelance writing agreement or stop writing a column I loved. In mid-February, I …

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Written on Feb, 22, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

Source  CMG  •  POSTED ON  February 20, 2013 Transcontinental Media, publisher of magazines such as Elle Canada and The Hockey News as well as dozens of community newspapers across the country, is trying to impose a harsh new contract on freelancers. The conditions Transcontinental is seeking undermine everyone in the sector. Transcontinental wants the same rights it gets for the work of employees …

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Written on Feb, 13, 2013 by in , , | Leave a comment

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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Written on Feb, 12, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

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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Written on Feb, 09, 2013 by in | Leave a comment

Source: theglobeandmail.com Value investors are thrifty folk who have a natural affinity for like-minded people. They detest CEOs who live it up on the backs of shareholders. Click here to read entire story

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Written on Feb, 06, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

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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Written on Jan, 30, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

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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Written on Jan, 28, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

Some reporters resent rise of assignments born of deals with advertisers. Source: thetyee.ca By Jonathan Sas “I hate it. I hate doing it… It’s not what I signed up for.” That’s the lament of a former Postmedia reporter assigned all too often to write “custom content.” Most of us assume that media outlets still go about producing their news the traditional way …

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Written on Jan, 24, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

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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Written on Jan, 24, 2013 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: financialpost.com Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest publisher of paid English language daily newspapers and Kijiji, Canada’s most popular free, local, online classifieds website, today announced that the used car listings for all 10 Postmedia daily newspaper websites* and driving.ca are now powered by Kijiji. The new automotive classifieds sites offer a mobile friendly experience. “By working with Kijiji we have turbo-charged …

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