G&M launches mobile unit

The Globe and Mail is launching a mobile and interactive unit headed by newly appointed senior editor Matt Frehner. Frehner will manage a core team of five that will work on multimedia projects for digital storytelling, support the newsroom in multimedia and mobile...

Newspapers deliver

A recent media and ad engagement study demonstrates the power of newspaper media. Print editions are the most engaging medium and have the highest advertising engagement, and newspaper Web sites easily outscore the Internet on both media and ad engagement. Read...

Media war Down Under

Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood has fired off an email to staff at the media company accusing rivals News Corp of  spreading “lies” about the company, having “deep seated cultural problems” and being “at war with itself over it future”. The email, sent this afternoon to...

Transcon profit up

Transcontinental Inc. reports it had $36.8-million of adjusted earnings in its fiscal second quarter, an increase of 12.9 per cent from a year earlier and ahead of analyst estimates. The country’s largest commercial printer had 47 cents per share of adjusted profit,...

Singing the multiplatform blues

It’s a dizzying, seasick world, this one of multiplatform publishing. With so many devices for acquiring news available to consumers today and the fast pace in which the devices are evolving—especially the smartphone—trying to plan a multiplatform publishing system...