The story of Vox Media

Vox Media is now a vast digital publishing network with eight individual sites that averaged more than 160 million monthly unique visitors last year. But it didn’t start out that way. The company’s origins trace back to 2003 when Tyler Bleszinski launched Athletics...

15,000 jobs at risk due to Harper-era CRTC

A Unifor-supported analysis released today found that more than 15,000 jobs are at risk due to CRTC rulings and policies on TV broadcasting left over from the Harper Government. “This study fills a void, and should send a powerful message to the new government,” said...

Portrait of an economy designed for the rich

By lunchtime Monday, Canada’s top chief executives had already banked an average worker’s annual salary. To put that another way, in 2014, the country’s top-paid CEOs took home 184 times as much as the average Canadian worker, according to an annual...

Life after print for La Presse

French-language news outlet La Presse bid farewell to its weekday print edition on Thursday as it moves ahead with plans to stake its place in the digital era. After 131 years of printing newspapers, the Montreal-based company owned by Power Corp. will shift its focus...

Media business trends to watch for in 2016

A wise person (not me) once said that in predictions of media change it is relatively easy to get the direction right but lots harder to forecast timing and magnitude. Take, for example,  my effort in this space a year ago.  I thought 2015 might be the year legacy...