Blog by John Miller

Road to oblivion

December 2nd, 2017
When the history of Canadian newspapers (or, more likely, their obituary) is written, this may go down as the week we heard the first death rattles. It started with the largest mass closure of newspapers in Canada’s history. Staff at 11 Ontario community newspapers and two free dailies in Toronto and Vancouver arrived for work Monday morning to find the doors locked. Their jobs were gone jus ...