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News Media Canada is excited to announce this year's winners for the 2018 CCNAwards competition. The list of winners has been posted to our Canadian Community Newspaper Awards page here. You can also click on the below links to see winners by their division.
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Do you have talented young reporters writing for your daily newspaper? Encourage them to enter their work for the 27th Annual Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prizes for Young Canadian Journalists. The Goff Penny Awards competition provides $1000 cash prizes to early-career journalists (full-time staff, interns or freelancers) writing for News Media Canada-member daily newspapers.
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When Canadians want the facts they turn to newspapers. Adults across Canada read local newspapers to find out what is happening in their community. Trust is a key element for consumer engagement which leads to action. Data on trust in various ad formats continues to find that newspapers top the most trusted list in a digitally overwhelming world.
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Melanie Joly, who has served as the Trudeau government's Minister of Canadian Heritage since the 2016 federal election, has been replaced by fellow Montreal M.P. Pablo Rodriguez. As columnist Graeme Hamilton writes in the National Post: "Joly leaves with many of her projects still works in progress."
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The Canadian Association of Journalists, the Centre for Free Expression, News Media Canada and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression are inviting nominations for the Code of Silence Award for outstanding achievement in government secrecy.
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Does size matter? Is bigger better? Newsworks in the UK answers these questions on the effectiveness of ad sizes in successfully driving recall, attention/recognition, engagement and action, with support from the RAMetrics database. Larger ads are noticed more, with 66% of readers recalling full page ads (vs 56% for half page ads and 52% for quarter page ads).
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The North Shore News has launched a new weekly Chinese edition of the paper. Once per week, the publication will curate a list of stories that have already run in the North Shore News and send them to Rise Media’s professional translators to be written and for layout.
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Nova Scotia's Pictou County Advocate has released a new video that shows its 'AdvoCruiser' making guest appearances at many local events this summer. It's a neat way to strengthen community ties and sustain a local presence.
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Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has released financial information for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2018. Revenue for the quarter was $171.0 million as compared to $190.0 million in the same period in the prior year, a decrease of $19.0 million or 10.0%.
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Even Houdini might be impressed. The daily task of getting the news delivered to thousands of readers, in a format each one prefers, at the time of day they want it, and in a manner also useful to sponsors and advertisers, surely is something of a magic trick. In newspeak, the process is called distribution.
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For the next few weeks, News on News will not be arriving in your inboxes on Friday morning. Our trusted editor will be away on holidays. Normal distribution will return on Friday, August 24. Our website and social feeds will, however, be regularly updated as normal. We hope you're all having a great summer.
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