In Canada and New Zealand, news agencies in flux illustrate the pressures on the co-op model
The Canadian Press and the New Zealand Press Association have a few things in common. They both serve as national news agencies to English-speaking countries with relatively small populations. For decades, they were both owned by their nation's newspaper companies, in a co-operative ownership structure. But there's something else only one of them is likely...
In Canada and New Zealand, news agencies in flux illustrate the pressures on the co-op model
The Canadian Press and the New Zealand Press Association have a few things in common. They both serve as national news agencies to English-speaking countries with relatively small populations. For decades, they were both owned by their nation's newspaper companies, in a co-operative ownership structure. But there's something else only one of them is likely...
The shakeup at MediaNews: Why it could be the leadup to a massive newspaper consolidation
Back in the early 1990s, Dean Singleton predicted that ultimately there would be just three newspaper companies left standing, and he intended his MediaNews Group to be one of them. It was an audacious prediction, because at the time, after a decade of wheeling, dealing and sometimes ruthless management, MediaNews Group still consisted of just...
Canwest Buyers, OpenFile Bet on Value of Local News in Canada
Two Canadians took a gamble that local news still matters this week. The two represent the hopes of both old and new media.
One was a $1.1 billion buyout (in Canadian dollars) of Canada's largest newspaper chain, the Canwest newspapers, led by experienced news executive Paul Godfrey.
The other was the launch of a hyper-local, participatory...
Twitter Didn’t Kill Gordon Lightfoot. Big Media Did.
It's easy to blame Twitter for falsely reporting that the guy who sings "Sundown" is dead. But you can't pin this one on the messaging service or its users, who were merely repeating what a big Canadian news service had told them.
