Family-owned newspapers can still work

In this year of consolidation in the newspaper industry, Gannett, New Media Investment Group and Tribune Publishing have scooped up dozens of titles in the name of efficiency. That makes the family-owned Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. an outlier — and proud to...

Inside scoop on Facebook's news push

For the past few months, the discussion of Facebook Instant Articles has far outpaced the actual number of Facebook Instant Articles — or the number of Facebook app users who saw them. Now that’s changing: After several months of testing with a limited percentage of...

Newspaper ads up 18% in September

Here’s something you rarely hear these days: It was a great quarter for newspaper advertising. Yes, you read that correctly. The long-struggling medium, which has seen ad revenue fall by half over the past decade as digital soared, recorded stellar gains during third...

Postmedia loss widens on weaker Canadian dollar

A weaker Canadian dollar continues to drag down Postmedia Network Canada Corp.’s already struggling financial results as the newspaper company booked a $54-million net loss for the fourth quarter, which ended August 31. That was worse than the $49.8-million loss in...