2017

‘Struggling’ Herald on buying spree with strike in 15th month

2017-04-13 // 1 Comment

HALIFAX – The owners of The Chronicle Herald have struck a deal to expand what they have long described as a business that was struggling to stay alive. Transcontinental [Read more...]

Police force’s demand for Toronto Star video interview flies under radar

2017-04-07 // 0 Comments

H.G. WATSON | J-Source Here are the facts of the case: A reporter interviews a person accused of heinous crimes. A story including parts, but not all, of the interview is [Read more...]

How Facebook and other platform companies promote bad journalism — and what to do about it

2017-04-03 // 0 Comments

RICK EDMONDS and BENJAMIN MULLIN | Poynter Facebook and other platform companies publishing news are forces for bad journalism not good, despite some well-intended efforts [Read more...]

Postmedia losing a third executive who received hefty retention bonus

2017-04-03 // 0 Comments

SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON | The Globe and Mail A third senior executive at Postmedia Network Canada Corp., who is part of a group awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars [Read more...]

Inside the Ugly Unravelling at the Vancouver Sun and Province

2017-04-03 // 0 Comments

DAVID BEERS | The Tyee It’s been a brutal three weeks of dread, tears, and colleagues suddenly forced to see each other as threats to their own jobs. That’s the picture [Read more...]

Members get rare chance to oppose bill that threatens pensions

2017-03-31 // 0 Comments

The retirement security of a majority of CWA Canada members — past and present — is threatened by proposed amendments to federal pension legislation. However, they have a [Read more...]

Critics say Trump NAFTA replacement too similar to TPP

2017-03-31 // 0 Comments

ADAM BEHSUDI | Politico President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to bring sweeping changes to the “terrible” North American Free Trade Agreement just got a dose of [Read more...]

Striking Halifax journalists’ awards nominations double Herald’s

2017-03-29 // 0 Comments

Local Xpress story about Atlantic Journalism Awards nominations

Local Xpress, the news site run by striking Chronicle Herald staff, has been nominated for six Atlantic Journalism Awards — twice as many as Nova Scotia’s “paper of [Read more...]

Struck Herald’s shared delivery deal rankles pro-union islanders

2017-03-28 // 0 Comments

A shared delivery deal between the owners of the Cape Breton Post and The Chronicle Herald has put members of two CWA Canada Locals in an uncomfortable position and riled [Read more...]

Dozens of CWA Canada members up for CAJ awards

2017-03-24 // 0 Comments

UPDATE: May 1, 2017 — The CWA Canada / CAJ Labour Reporting Award went to Min Sook Lee of TVO for Migrant Dreams Dozens of CWA Canada members are among the finalists [Read more...]