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How the Canadian Newspaper Industry Can Adapt to Changes

Business Wire

By Jean-Adrien Delicano, Media Relations Specialist, Business Wire Another month, another round of layoffs and “restructuring” in the Canadian media world. In March 2017, Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper company, announced 54 layoffs at the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province newsrooms.

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Print news media is dying

Stephen Waddington

Print news media under threat is not an exclusive. Jessica Pardoe When did you last read a newspaper? We consume news through TV, mobile apps, PC and social media. In fact, it’s becoming unusual to pick up a newspaper. Charging for news content takes newspapers back their traditional business model.

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Why Tech Is Important To PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR firms have withstood the rise of many possible “PR killers” including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media, often integrating or using those disciplines to grow their business or even make earned media more effective. Yes, social media changed PR. That’s simply not the case.

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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. Advertising has shifted to internet mediated platforms such as Google and Facebook, and print sales have declined. It has given rise to so-called ghost newspapers produced by groups such as Newsquest and Reach. Rumours are commonplace.

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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. The conclusion to the story of the digitisation of news media may only take a matter of months. Print accounts for 80% of UK newspaper revenues and digital 20%.

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PRSA Introduces Innovative Program to Guide Journalists Transitioning Into PR and Communications

PRSay

The media marketplace is also changing. Traditional media continues to shrink while job opportunities in public relations, integrated communications, and social media expand and grow. Before joining PRSA in 1994, he worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer in Columbus, Ohio. Absolutely!

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13 stories about the future of news

Stephen Waddington

Print is down but digital is booming. COVID-19 boosts news consumption across all mainstream media (except print) The COVIDA-19 crisis has substantially increased news consumption for mainstream media. Consumption of printed newspapers has fallen as lockdowns undermine physical distribution.