Postmedia looks to chop more costs

The company that owns the National Post, the Toronto Sun and other major Canadian newspapers says it had a $4.2-million net loss for its fiscal first quarter. Postmedia Network Canada Corp. says last year’s acquisition of Quebecor’s Sun Media newspapers helped push up...

Canadian unions celebrate defeat of C-377

As Canada’s unions celebrate their first victory — the elimination of the Harper government’s union-reporting laws — their counterparts in the U.S. and U.K. are engaged in similar battles for workers’ rights. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

Philly papers donated to non-profit

The owner of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com has donated the news organizations to a newly created media institute, the core of a complicated transaction designed to ensure that quality journalism endures in Philadelphia for generations. The...

The 'poop bot' a public service

There were a lot of sewage spills last summer in Vermont. Unfortunately, the state website that reported those spills was somewhat hard to navigate — people who wanted to know if their water was safe to drink had to manually refresh a website and then check to see if...

Apple News app off to a rocky start

Since it launched last September, Apple Inc.’s News app has attracted more than 100 publishing partners world-wide hoping to capitalize on the growing consumption of news on mobile devices. There is one major problem: Neither media companies nor Apple know how many...