by Brian Gibson | Aug 27, 2020 | Industry News, Journalism, Uncategorized
TORONTO—An expert report released today by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters paints a grim future for Canadian democracy, predicting more newsrooms to close as broadcasters bleed revenue to foreign giants such as Facebook, Netflix and Google. “The...
by Brian Gibson | Jul 3, 2020 | Industry News, Journalism, Print
Document Resource Summary: The media sector faced a number of significant challenges before the COVID-19 crisis struck, including the loss of advertising revenue to digital giants like Facebook and Google, cutbacks and closures of local and regional news outlets, the...
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....
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