Transcontinental to talk about their black friends more
Transcontinental, which owns 61 community weeklies in Quebec (22 of them on the island of Montreal), has decided to reverse its position banning brown people from its papers. At least, that’s the best...
View ArticleHalifax Daily News gone, replaced by Metro
The news was announced this morning, with some Daily News employees hearing about it from other media (how classy). Transcontinental, the publisher of the Daily News, as well as free daily Metro...
View ArticleNDG Monitor to go online-only
Less than a year after it relaunched itself, the NDG Monitor newspaper will stop printing as of next week and focus exclusively on its website. The decision results in the layoff of two salespeople and...
View ArticleEnd of the road for The Monitor
The final issue of the NDG Monitor went out today. It includes a column from editor Toula Foscolos on the print shutdown, one from Noah Sidel and another from Bram Eisenthal, plus a message from the...
View ArticleJournal Daily Digest: Cauchon sticks his nose in it
The link of the day comes from this morning’s Le Devoir, in which media reporter Paul Cauchon does an analysis of the Journal situation, the freelance columnist problem and the role of unions in media....
View ArticleTranscon union launches website
The union representing workers at Transcontinental’s community weeklies has launched a website, which details its positions in contract negotiations. The workers have been without a contract since...
View ArticleCourrier Laval loses half its reporting staff
The fallout from the cuts at Transcontinental are starting to trickle down. The Courrier Laval has lost two of its four reporters, leaving two people to write all the news from across the island. One...
View ArticleMichel Vézina moves to Transcontinental
Michel Vézina, the former ICI columnist who quit in January when he wouldn’t sign a contract that would allow his work to be republished freely in other Quebecor publications (including the Journal de...
View ArticleAll communities are alike to Transcon
This is one of the reasons I’m not crazy about the Transcontinental weeklies. They have so little content of their own, but mask that by copying content from other papers or from the network. The...
View ArticleNDG Monitor news article actually a press release
The NDG Monitor, which shut down in February and became online-only, and recently criticized a borough-produced newspaper for being nothing but press releases, is now itself cutting and pasting press...
View ArticleTranscontinental wants your copyright
Following in the footsteps of TVA Publications, Transcontinental is now demanding that freelancers sign contracts that assign to the publisher all rights associated with submitted pieces (PDF). In...
View ArticleTranscon makes bilingual papers French-only
CTV seems to be the only outlet so far to note that five Transcontinental community weeklies in Montreal have given up on trying to be bilingual and have switched to French-only publication. The papers...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from Transcontinental (P.S.: You’re fired)
When was the last time you read a community weekly from Transcontinenal Media? When was the last time you learned anything interesting from it about your neighbourhood that you couldn’t get from the...
View ArticleTranscontinental centralizes pagination in Maritimes
It’s the craze that’s sweeping the nation: centralized pagination. Instead of having people layout their own newspapers, big newspaper companies (including Quebecor and my employer Canwest) and have...
View ArticleWest Island newspaper editors give up on former jobs
A month after their positions were eliminated, and after surprising their bosses by saying they would not accept demotions, the editors of the West Island Chronicle and Cités Nouvelles have both...
View ArticleQuebecor sets sights on Transcontinental with two new weeklies
Quebecor Media announced today that it is launching two new weekly community newspapers: Echo de Laval and Echo de la Rive-Nord. (Their newspaper naming team must have spent minutes on those.) Like...
View ArticleTranscontinental/Chronicle Herald sale continues regional monopolization of...
The Halifax Chronicle Herald surprised me this morning by announcing it is purchasing almost all of Transcontinental’s print assets in Atlantic Canada, including 27 newspapers, one online-only news...
View ArticleWho wants to buy Transcontinental’s community newspapers in Quebec?
As was rumoured last week when it sold its Atlantic Canadian newspaper portfolio to the owners of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Transcontinental announced this morning that it has put its remaining...
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