The 2005 Canada Post Literacy Awards are now accepting nominations. The awards honour Canadians who have made significant contributions toward literacy in one of four categories: Individuals, Educators, Community Leadership, and Business Leadership.

Each award recipient in the Individual and Educator categories will receive a computer. Community Leadership winners will receive a $2,000 cash award.

The entry deadline ...

The Quebec Community Newspapers Association (QCNA) is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2005, and it will be highlighted during its upcoming convention on May 27 & 28 at the Holiday Inn Pointe Claire in Pointe Claire, Quebec. Needless to say, the QCNA office is in high gear preparing for the best convention ever!

Here’s a preview of what will be taking place: Friday, ...

The Peter Gzowski Literacy Awards were developed in 1993 by ABC Canada "to recognize the talent, effort, and commitment required to achieve quality reporting on issues related to literacy.

The competition is open to all professional journalists working in Canada. Entries for the 2005 competition must have been published between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2004. The ...

The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors 51st Annual Conference is set for July 5 – 10, 2005, in Edmonton and Fort McMurray, Alberta. Conference co-ordinator Brian Mazza is looking for a strong representation from Canadian weekly newspapers at the event.

To date, registration includes participants from five countries: Ireland, England, Mexico, Canada, and the ...

Canadian Community Newspapers Association

86th National Convention

June 1 – 4, 2005

Banff Park Lodge

Banff, AB

Community newspapers are putting their best foot forward, and finally, the ...

Vancouver is a hot market for free dailies, with three rolled out in as many weeks. On April 4, the CanWest-owned Dose, which is aimed toward youth aged 18 – 35, put out its premiere edition. The paper also launched in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto.

CanWest is also part-owner of Metro, along with Metro International and Torstar Corp, which hit the Vancouver market ...

I’ve never fancied myself as a Woodward and Bernstein kind of reporter, but that’s the situation I’ve found myself in recently.

It was two weeks ago that someone walked in to the Morning Star office, left an envelope with my name on it at the front counter, and promptly walked out the door and disappeared.

Receiving envelopes ...

One of the more memorable editorials written in my time at The Free Press was penned by former editor Steve Heywood. I remember it vividly because I was about two months into my first real reporting job and Steve, as is often the case with this job, was getting grief from the townspeople.

Heywood, now the editor of Vancouver Island’s Parksville Qualicum News, posed some ...

At the moment, RSS is lurking just below most people's radar. For the consummate news junkie, there are few better tools for getting up-to-the-minute specialized news. It's a new way to surf the net, and one that could save busy editors plenty of time.

Sites are starting to adopt RSS in droves, so now is the time to start making this technology work for you. ...

Is your website an important part of your business?

YES: 91%

NO: 9%

With few exceptions, poll respondents agree that web sites are an important part of their business. It's also interesting to note that most papers are not making much money with their web sites compared to traditional revenue streams. Not only that, but most members are giving away ...

This is the dawn of the digital era at the Gananoque Reporter. Today's paper is the first to be paginated completely with computers.

Although the initial results shouldn't be terribly noticeable to the reader at first, the change will allow the paper to update page layout formats, have more flexibility with photographs, and generally save time.

Oxford County Archivist Mary Gladwin met with Rev. Marion Jackson Tyler, Dr. Bruce Halliday, Mrs. Mary Nicklas and Gazette editor/publisher Bill Gladding on Thursday afternoon, March 10 to scrutinize the contents of the time capsule pulled from the cornerstone of Grace United Church the previous week.

The most telling artifact was a near-perfect copy of a story cut out of ...

Several planning sessions have been held for the Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s 86th National Convention in Banff, Alberta, and final touches are now being made for this year’s event, taking place June 1-4, 2005—with the famous Rocky Mountains as the backdrop for the association’s annual gathering.

Community newspapers are putting their best foot forward, and finally, the advertising world is taking notice. Join your ...

Tanzania

The Etobicoke (ON) Guardian and the Powell River (BC) Peak both ran stories about Tanzania in March since journalists from those two papers, Tamara Shephard and Isabelle Southcott, won the 2004 CIDA awards for excellence in writing on international cooperation. CCNA members can reprint those stories, which are available online at ...

The basics

707: CCNA members

336: Number of unique paper names

104: Number of newspapers whose titles contain the word "News"

Other most frequently occurring words in titles