Archive for ‘Other News’
Canwest pensioners’ lives in limbo
Monday, November 30th, 2009
At age 72 and with health problems to contend with, Bob Ireland says there’s not a “heck of a lot” he can do to find new work to replace his …
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Torstar looking for acquisitions
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Call it the new Torstar. The way CEO David Holland describes it, the once newspaper-centric operation named after its cornerstone big city newspaper the Toronto Star is now a catch-all …
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Freelancing in war zones
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Amanda Lindhout was a waitress at an Irish pub in Calgary, Alberta, with a dream of becoming a journalist. But Ms. Lindhout, who has no formal journalistic training, did not …
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Canwest posts operating profit of $52 million
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Canwest Global Communications Corp. said Friday it had a fourth quarter operating profit of $52-million before charges, compared with $60-million in the fourth quarter of 2008. For the full fiscal …
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IFJ condemns massacre of 30 journalists
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Media suffered unprecedented attack with the terrible tragedy that struck the Philippines on Monday 23 November 2009 . The news is unfolding on a daily basis, but the latest information …
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‘Tough guy’ new editor of Telegraph
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Tony Gallagher, a 45-year-old former Daily Mail executive with a fearsome reputation as a Fleet Street hardman, has been named as the Telegraph’s 14th editor since 1855. Gallagher replaces Will …
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Canwest fires back at Goldman
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
The oddest of couples in Canadian media is coming unstuck, as CanWest Global Communications Corp. accuses partner Goldman Sachs & Co. of acting in bad faith over the stable of …
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Guardian most popular UK paper website
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Guardian.co.uk remained the most popular UK newspaper website last month with more than 31 million monthly unique users, despite shedding more than 1 million uniques after September’s record traffic.
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Anatomy of an evening paper
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
The London Evening Standard is to drop its midday News Extra edition to focus on distribution of more up-to-date news for the evening commuter market, leading to up to 20 …
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Toronto Star to cut one-fifth of newsroom
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Management at the Toronto Star newspaper has filed formal notice of a plan to contract out newsroom production work and cut 121 jobs in a bid to save more than …
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