The Postmedia Effect

How Vulture Capitalism is Wrecking Our News

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Answering a misguided John Cruickshank

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John Cruickshank has seen the decline of Canada’s newspaper industry from the inside as publisher of the Toronto Star from 2008 until 2016,...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Panel set to discuss Canadian news media’s seeming descent into hell

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There will be lots to discuss about Canada's news media when a panel of long-time media analysts convenes at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Room...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Answering an unhinged Terence Corcoran

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Cranky McCrankypants I fear I may have pushed Terence Corcoran over the edge, to use one of my least favourite puns on my name. “I can’t go ...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

Excerpt: A perfect marriage

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The only newspaper monopoly in Canada worse than Postmedia’s in the West was the Irving family’s in New Brunswick. Four generations of Irvin...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Excerpt: Project Ice

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The last week of November 2017 should have been a fruitful one for John Hammill,  with Christmas advertising pouring in to fill the pages of...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Excerpt: The bailout campaign

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It was perhaps fitting that Edward Greenspon would head the Public Policy Forum think tank . After all, he had won its Hyman Solomon Award f...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Chapter 1 – A question of control

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Paul Godfrey seated himself to testify. The wiry 77-year-old newspaper company executive had been called to account by the federal governmen...
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