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Reminder: Canada Periodical Fund application deadline February 19, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The Department of Canadian Heritage is currently accepting applications to the Canada Periodical Fund beginning with the Aid to Publishers (ATP) component.

The deadline for applications ...

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ComBase launches 2008-2009 study results
Monday, January 11, 2010

TORONTO, January 11, 2010 - The Canadian Community Newspaper Database Corporation (ComBase) today announced the results of its 2008-2009 study, with readership data for 218 markets ...

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Canadian Media Circulation Audit Member Advisory
Thursday, January 07, 2010
DATE: January 6, 2010 TO: CMCA-member Publishers and Circulation Managers FROM: Katrina L. Santiago, Program Manager RE: Audits Dear Member: Over the past year, there have been a number ...
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Media all-star to be keynote speaker at Ink & Beyond conference
Monday, January 04, 2010

A media all-star with journalism roots in Ontario will be the keynote speaker at the 2010 Ink and Beyond conference

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Canada Periodical Fund update
Monday, November 16, 2009

Canadian Community Newspapers Association staff met with Canadian Heritage officials on November 10 to discuss details of the upcoming Canada Periodical Fund.

The new fund is set to replace ...

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BREAKING NEWS: Ontario newspapers to be exempt from HST
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Ontario government announced this morning that newspaper subscriptions and ...

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Avoid the rush: Test-drive new Canada Post container requirements now
'Canvas mailing bags are being eliminated. Have you made the switch yet?' --
Thursday, November 05, 2009

The holiday season is a flurry of activity that can leave your head spinning. It's also the time of year when Canada Post is phasing out canvas ...

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Unaddressed Admail weblinks: Transition from bags to alternate containers by December 31, 2009
Canada Post reminder letter re: transition from bags to alternate containers by December 31, 2009 
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Canada Post has announced that it will no longer supply canvas bags for Unaddressed Admail after December 31, 2009. As well, it will no longer accept Unaddressed Admail in ...

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Publications Mail weblinks: Transition from bags to alternate containers by December 31, 2010
Canada Post reminder letter: Publications Mail transition from bags to alternate containers by December 31, 2009 
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Canada Post has announced that it will no longer supply canvas bags for Publications Mail after December 31, 2010. As well, it will no longer accept Publications Mail in canvas ...

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Community Content launches new website
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

CCNA's Community Content service has revamped its website. The new and improved site (www.communitycontent.ca) has more features for ...

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Looking for industry ads, marketing tools and case studies?
 
Thursday, October 01, 2009

The Canadian Newspaper Association and Canadian Community Newspapers Association have been pleased to provide member newspapers with marketing pieces and case studies to aid their ...

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Industry ads available for print and web
 
Thursday, October 01, 2009
VICE-PRESIDENT, MARKETING AND INNOVATION, CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

All media are challenged this year. And the Canadian market is being pummeled with bad-news stories about debt-ridden newspapers coming mainly out of the United States. Despite this, newspapers ...

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Newspaper Training Made Easy!
Thursday, October 01, 2009
CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

Our 2009-2010 webinar season begins Sept. 16 with live, online training opportunities aimed at editors and reporters as well as marketing and advertising managers and creative ...

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Future of newspapers still murky
'The big winners in this fast-changing advertising market will be those who manage to make the traditional and the new, print and digital, mass marketing and personalized marketing work together.' -- François Olivier
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Canada’s newspaper industry is struggling to define what will be reflected in its future. Will readers still enjoy the mingled smells of newsprint and fresh brewed coffee on weekend ...

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Rethinking newsroom workflow
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

Behind the scenes at Canada’s daily and community newspapers, companies are making significant adjustments this year to the way content is produced. While readers will notice only slight differences, ...

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It ain’t easy being local
'Most newspapers devote critical development time and money and talent to figuring out how to automate pushing stories to the web and end up with sprawling, over-stuffed, under-read, expensive-to-maintain web sites that have no real idea of what needs they’re meeting.' --
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

For years now, the mantra repeated in publishers’ boardrooms across the continent when discussing the web has been: local, local, local. The generally accepted wisdom is that everybody but the Globe ...

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Between Friends: Humour without borders
Saturday, August 01, 2009
CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

Like any other home-based business owner, Sandra Bell-Lundy has to work doubly hard just to get away on holiday. When I called recently, she was completing four weeks worth of cartooning ...

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Taking the paper out of newspapers
'There are 10 media covering most of the big stories. Why would we want to be No. 11?' -- Markham Hislop
Saturday, August 01, 2009

The newspaper industry is in flux, with each new reading of the tea leaves raising more questions than answers.

Is ...

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Are we chasing our tails, or grabbing the problem by the wrong end?
'The Net offers us some astounding opportunities to reach that huge new market of people who don’t pay for or read newspapers. Why in heaven’s name are we porting over our old, failed business models?' -- Bill Dunphy
Saturday, August 01, 2009
HAMILTON SPECTATOR

Last month we got a puppy: a bouncing brown and white bundle of uncritical affection and boundless energy.

The upheaval caused by his arrival reminded me of that gloriously grey and sleepless ...

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Q&A with newspaper columnist and author Arthur Black
'As far as I’m concerned, McLuhan nailed it years ago when he said, “You don’t read newspapers. You get into them like a bath.” ' -- Arthur Black
Saturday, August 01, 2009
CANADIAN NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

Beloved humorist Arthur Black is best known for his 19 years as host of Basic Black, his former national weekly radio show on CBC. The author of 15 books, he continues to write ...

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