Source: theglobeandmail.com Sun Media pressed ahead with an internal reorganization Wednesday, firing regional publishers in Ontario and replacing them with advertising managers whose sole focus will be on selling advertisements across broad geographic areas. Click the link to read the entire story @ theglobeandmail.com
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Source: theglobeandmail.com Postmedia Network Inc. is asking current and former employees to help the embattled newspaper publisher save some millions of dollars a year by extending the amount of time the company has to top up their pension fund. The company – which publishes such metropolitan titles such as the National Post, Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald – is taking advantage …
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Source: poynter.org An accusation is often more newsworthy than the recantation. So should a news organization make an effort to ensure the new information is given the same prominence as the original? It’s a question that arose this week after the unnamed man who leveled underage sex allegations against Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of Elmo on “Sesame Street,” recanted …
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Source: reuters.com Tue Nov 6, 2012 3:25pm EST Overview — We are lowering our long-term corporate credit rating on Victoria, B.C.-based Black Press Ltd. to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’ based on our view of the company’s ongoing organic revenue and profit declines, as well as refinancing risk. — At the same time, we are revising our recovery rating on the company’s senior …
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Source: angus-reid.com Most respondents rely on television, print newspapers and radio to make informed choices before an election. British Columbians express a preference for unbiased journalism from established news organizations, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll conducted in partnership with the Jack Webster Foundation has found. In the online survey of a representative sample of 800 British Columbians, almost four-in-five respondents (78%) …
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Source: mediaunion.ca Members of Local 2000 at the Campbell River Courier Islander will vote Thursday night on a “final offer” presented by the employer. The proposal is for a four-year agreement. Other details will be explained at the meeting. The bargaining committee has made no recommendation on the offer.
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Source: mediaunion.ca A tentative agreement has been reached between the Nanaimo Daily News and CEP Local 2000. More details will be available at the ratification vote, which will be held Wednesday October 31, time and place to be announced. Efforts by Mailroom employees at the Daily News represented by CEP Local 525G have so far failed to reach an agreement.
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Source: rabble.ca BY PRIYA SARIN PRO BONO | OCTOBER 25, 2012 The dramatic growth of social media use in Canada on such sites as Facebook has raised novel legal issues for employers and employees. One such issue is whether or not an employee’s off-duty conduct online (i.e. posting personal status updates, photos or comments on Facebook at home) can get that employee fired. In short, …
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Source: thetyee.ca Eight pager formatted much like news, but Stead offers slim explanation. By: By Jonathan Sas, 22 October 2012, TheTyee.ca View full article and comments: http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/10/22/Globe-Oil-Sands-Advertorial/ “Journalism, commercial interests should be kept separate.” So ran the headline of a post written by the Globe and Mail’s public editor Sylvia Stead on Sept. 27. In the midst of the uproar over Margaret Wente’s …
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Source: cwa-scacanada.ca Negotiations that spanned 18 months and two owners have finally produced new contracts for two CWA Canada Locals that represent workers at the Victoria Times Colonist. The four-year agreement, which will expire Jan. 2, 2015, includes wage boosts of 1.0 per cent in 2013 and 1.5 per cent in 2014, plus a $250 signing bonus in lieu of retroactive increases. …
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