by Gary | Dec 7, 2015 | Industry News |
In case you haven’t heard (and I’m sure you haven’t), Canada has a new national body to hear complaints about what you think is wrong in newspapers, magazines and online news sites. It’s called the National NewsMedia Council, and it describes...
by Gary | Dec 4, 2015 | Industry News |
When newspapers took a nosedive in the late 2000s, it appeared as if the San Francisco Chronicle might be one of the industry’s biggest casualties. The paper reportedly was bleeding at least $50 million per year from its parent Hearst, a situation worsened by...
by Gary | Dec 4, 2015 | Industry News |
Please don’t think of this as shilling for the Star’s tablet version, Star Touch — now available in Android as well as iOS. If you don’t like the Star, you’ll probably dislike it in any version. But I’ve been intrigued by the concept of tablets since Steve Jobs...
by Gary | Dec 3, 2015 | Industry News |
Facebook might be sending less traffic to publishers’ websites now than it did in January, or more traffic, or the same amount of traffic. It depends on who you ask. In recent years publishers have increasingly relied on Facebook to drive users to their websites, and...
by Gary | Dec 2, 2015 | Industry News |
Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Postmedia Network Inc.’s credit rating to the same grade assigned to ailing Greece, warning that the newspaper company could struggle to refinance its high-interest debt and calling its capital structure “unsustainable.” In...
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