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Sarah Seeley and Zane Schwartz have been selected as the two recipients of the 27th annual Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prizes for Young Canadian Journalists.
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The federal government should study the idea of changing tax measures that encourage news media advertisers to spend money with foreign companies, hobbling Canada’s already declining news industry, a Senate committee recommended in a report released this week.
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Recent research from early 2018 proves that ads in newspapers are read more than social media and search engines. Two thirds of printed newspaper readers actually read printed automotive ads and even with ad blocking, more than half (52%) noticed digital auto ads on newspaper websites.
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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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NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK 2018
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We are now just about six weeks away from the kick-off to National Newspaper Week in Canada, which is taking place this year from October 1 - 7. This is an important opportunity for us to raise awareness of - and support for - our industry among our most important stakeholders.
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The late Jack “Sig” Sigvaldason, 84, a big man with a big vision who brought the printed word to every corner of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, died Aug. 9 in Ottawa, nunavutnews.com reported last week. His legacy is Northern News Services Ltd., the company he began building in 1972 after he launched the Yellowknifer.
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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
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New research from Newsworks and GroupM reveals that quality online environments, such as those created by news organizations, have a positive impact on multiple important engagement metrics used by advertisers.
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A recent story in J-Source has highlighted how crossword puzzles have been an unintended victim of local newspaper closures. The Peterborough Examiner, however, has recently has been experimenting with new crossword puzzles after noticing that the newspaper had lost subscribers because of the crossword (or lack thereof).
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As we rev up our engines in anticipation of this year's National Newspaper Week, News Media Canada is happy to officially launch our own Instagram channel. We hope you'll follow us @newsmediacanada. We're very much looking forward to sharing the excellent work of our members during our National Newspaper Week project - and beyond!
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Tanya Talaga, an investigative journalist at the Toronto Star, will deliver the 2018 CBC Massey Lectures. The focus of her series of lectures will be titled All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, will explore the issues surrounding Indigenous youth suicide in Canada and internationally. The lectures will be based on the work Talaga did as the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy.
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The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has declared that collective job action could take place on September 26 if a new agreement is not reached soon.
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News Media Canada invites all of its members to participate in a webinar with Health Canada over the future promotion prohibitions on cannabis under the Cannabis Act.
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