by Brian Gibson | Jun 18, 2020 | Industry News, Journalism
Considering such long-term measures to assist companies over shorter-term support currently in place Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday that Ottawa is looking for “longer-term solutions” to support news and information organizations, and...
by Brian Gibson | May 29, 2020 | Industry News, Journalism
The buyers say a lot of the right things. But since they seem to have no publishing experience, there’s no way to know what their plans are for the corporation, or for the newspaper. By Magda Konieczna There’s a major irony behind this week’s sale of the Canadian...
by Jennifer Moreau | Mar 27, 2017 | Journalism, Local News |
Unifor Local 2000 is fighting aggressive layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and The Province, and we need your help. Last Friday, the company started delivering layoff notices to 54 people. Combined with 38 voluntary buyouts in January, these 54 job cuts will reduce staff...
by Gary | Jan 20, 2015 | Industry News, Journalism |
The New York Times may deny that it’s playing the BuzzFeed game, but there’s no getting around the fact that with the homepage declining in importance as a source of publishers’ traffic, the pressure to use social media to find readers has never been greater....
by Gary | Jan 5, 2015 | Industry News, Journalism |
You have finally finished writing your article. You’ve sweat over your choice of words and agonized about the best way to arrange them to effectively get your point across. You comb for errors, and by the time you publish you are absolutely certain that not a single...
by Gary | Nov 24, 2014 | Industry News, Journalism, Uncategorized |
More than 50 years ago I became a “journalist” by the simple act of riding an elevator to the third floor of an office building in Halifax. I was shown to a desk in the far corner of a large newsroom and presented with the tools of my new trade — a...
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