Globe and Mail to pay Transcon $31 million

The Globe and Mail has reached a $31-million agreement with Transcontinental Inc. to compensate the printing giant for reduced revenue from the Toronto-based newspaper. Transcontinental, headquartered in Montreal, announced Tuesday it had renegotiated its 18-year...

New book looks at data journalism

Data journalism is a big subject that gets a lengthy treatment in a new book, Data Journalism: Inside the Global Future, out this month from Abramis Academic Publishing in the U.K. The book contains 30 chapters written by U.S. and U.K. journalists, editors, and...

Print is the new ‘new media’

PRINT IS BEAUTIFUL. It can’t notify you when a work email arrives, can’t be tweeted mid-sentence, and won’t die without a charger. Even better, it’s finite. It’s also supposed to be dead. For years, the new media vanguard has preached “digital first” and the death...

Digital ad spending soon to surpass TV

Television has lost its longtime grip on advertising budgets as digital ad spending continues to surge, according to some of the advertising industry’s most closely watched forecasts to be released on Monday. Television ad sales are expected to fall slightly this...