Sun Staff outta 333 King by end of ’15. National Post to become a tabloid: I remember serious rumblings 2-3 years ago that PM management wanted to turn the Post into a tabloid. One of the hurdles, of course, would have been that Canada already has a chain of urban tabs….But
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Media Die: More Cuts At Sun News
The Dim Reapers strike again – managers being laid off across the chain, though unclear yet if it’s every managing editor or just some. Several Ontario dailies lost their MEs today. Other senior staff also cut. And: Webco printing in London closed. As many as 40 gone. And:More than 40^there
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media Begins Its Annual Round Of Xmas Layoffs
From TSF: More to come, at least in Ontario. Bleak start to the holiday season. Thought Scrooge resigned…guess not.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Paper Folds! Sun Media Loses 13th Publication This Year
The Crowsnest Pass Promoter shut down this weekend. Not quite sure what precipitated this, but it might be for slightly different reasons than the usual. It sounds as through the local mayor has threatened lawsuits against his town’s two papers.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media Photo Editor Sacked?
In a cost-saving move, pics will be crowd-sourced to random guy carrying smart-phone. No. That last bit is untrue. So far.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media: More Closures To Come?
At our paper we are counting the days until they come to lock the doors. There is no fight left in anyone in our building. When, not if Metroland comes to town, people are already updating their resumes, hard to keep fighting for a company that doesn’t care.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dying News Industry Continues To Die
The Portage Daily Graphic, Portage La Prairie’s local newspaper, was altered from a daily publication to a weekly on Mar. 11. The decision was announced by Sun Media and came after large company cuts in November, 2012 and newspaper staff layoffs around the country. According to Portage la Prairie Mayor
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is Sun Media Dumping Even More Small Town Newspapers?
This time, rumors from B.C.: Well, Sunmedia (Crowsnest Promoter) articles are appearing in Black Press owned Fernie Free Press. Draw your own conclusions. Mine is that there’s a bunch of small town papers that have already been dealt away, just not announced yet. This is the Crowsnest Pass Promoter; this the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: And ANOTHER Sun Media Publication Bites The Dust
Just got the word that Shopping News in Niagara is done as of today. And indeed the URL either dead-ends or redirects to the Niagara Falls Review. This is all happening too fast. I’m running out of anti-Sun Media jokes!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another One Bites The Dust
Sun Media says they’re committed to the town of Ingersoll…so committed they’re going down the road to Woodstock, where their new HQ will be a decommissioned school bus. No, I’m lying! They’ll be sharing space at a radical mosque. No, I’m lying about that too. Austerity now, Sun Media. AUSTERITY NOW!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Quebecor Shutting More Papers
From the Toronto Sun Family blog: Rumors are spreading that the Niagara region has shut down some of the Shopping News Papers including St. Kits, NF and Welland. No rumour. Closures, plus layoffs, but not sure exactly how many for each paper. Also not sure where survivors are going. Let-go’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun News Network–Beacon O’ Diversity
By the same logic you could say they’ve really been a great help to the Roma. From here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun News Network Begs For Taxpayer $
Application by TVA Group Inc. and Sun Media Corporation, partners in a general partnership carrying on business as Sun News General Partnership, for mandatory distribution on the digital and analog basic service pursuant to an order issued under section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act of the national English-language specialty national
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More Leaked Coren! Most People At Sun News Network Are Gay!
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Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is A Sun News Network Insider Trying To Screw The Sun News Network?
…or are they just trying to screw Michael Coren? This is the second bit of embarrassing Michael Coren footage to have appeared within the last couple of days. The first can be found here (although, truth be told, the audio looks to have been fiddled with–and there’s an edit at the 7 second
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media To Sell Off Alberta Papers In 2013?
The question: why did Quebecor close one paper in Ontario with 6 employees and circulation of about 18k, but keep a couple of papers in Alberta with ten employees and less than 3k in circulation? The answer, perhaps: even though the rural Alberta papers have low circulation, they were likely not closed
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Error Upon Error
Rumor has it that cut-backs at Sun Media means staff have been forced to buy word processing software without a spell-check function. From here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More Sun Media Newspapers Close Their Doors
From the “That Didn’t Take Long, Did It?” department: The Windsor This Week and Leamington Post websites are already down and folks who try and access those sites are automatically redirected to the Toronto Sun. The Amherstburg Echo, whose site was taken down a few weeks ago resulting in people
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: There’s No App For That
As part of the changes, News Corp. said it will cease publication of The Daily, its iPad news application, on Dec. 15.“From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation,” Murdoch said in a …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: I’ve Been Trying My Whole Life To Destroy the MSM…
…and now they’re committing suicide right in front of me. From Sun media’s paywall Q&A: In Canada, media companies are also looking to digital monetization to grow their revenue. Sun Media was a leader in the market,launching a fr…
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