Archive for November, 2009
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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Worker co-op owned daily celebrates one-year anniversary
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
It was a year ago today that a group of 90 locked‑out newspaper professionals showed its entrepreneurial spirit by launching the Puerto Rico Daily Sun – which is not only …
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Ex-editor competes with Chicago Tribune
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
James E. O’Shea ex-editor of The Chicago Tribune is now competing head-to-head with the Tribune as editor of a new local news venture in Chicago, a small band of people …
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Goldman seeks more control of Canwest
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Goldman Sachs & Co. is attempting to undermine the power of U.S. distressed debt funds that control CanWest Global Communications Corp., while these same creditors weigh CEO Leonard Asper’s fate …
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Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren’t necessarily selling more copies. Since April 1, …
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Flat Earth News vs. Newspeak
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
In the Guest Media Alert that follows, Jonathan Cook attempts the truly Herculean task of dissecting and comparing the key arguments in Nick Davies’s book ‘Flat Earth News’ and Media …
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Deal reached with 3 unions at La Presse
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Montreal La Presse says it has reached an agreement in principle with three more of its eight unions, making it increasingly likely the newspaper will not be shut down on …
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Paper sued over plagiarism
Friday, November 20th, 2009
The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn., has sued The Courant, the state’s largest paper, saying that it copied The Journal Inquirer’s work in articles published last summer, a time when …
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Holland named Torstar CEO
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Torstar Corp.’s board of directors unanimously confirmed David Holland as president and chief executive officer on Thursday. Holland, a chartered accountant who has worked for Torstar since 1986, had held …
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U.S. newspaper readership still healthy
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A new study from Scarborough Research finds that 74% of adults — nearly 171 million — in the United States read a newspaper in print or online during the past …
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