Seattle Times offers buyouts

The Seattle Times is offering its employees the opportunity to be bought out of their positions in a move to reduce its workforce and ease strain on its budget. “I know the timing for this is not ideal. But I hope that those of you considering leaving the Times...

The disintegration of the Postmedia chain

There’s big trouble in Postmedialand. Recently, the sad state of Canada’s largest media chain was the subject of some old-style gumshoe reporting by the National Observer’s Bruce Livesey. In his exposé of a beleaguered news outfit circling the drain, Livesey shows how...

Crain bets on email newsletters

Email newsletters are highly personal: Landing directly in our inboxes, bidding us good morning and good night, crafted to sound more like a knowledgeable friend than a news organization. Crain Communications is doubling down on email as a means of amplifying its...

Right wing billionaire behind paper purchase

Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate and Republican power broker who spent more than $100 million in the last election cycle, is behind the secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, according to the newspaper. Speculation has mounted for days that...

Vice Canada staff look to unionize

Staff at Vice Canada may follow the lead of their American counterparts and form a union. Organizers are trying to get enough staff to their union cards before the Christmas holidays so that they can trigger a certification vote. “We’ve been working on it for the last...