Help Shape Your Association
Fri, 02/27/2009 - 15:29The Board of Directors of the Ontario Community Newspapers Association is undergoing a Strategic Planning process and is looking for input from newspaper professionals who are passionate about what they do. Six Work Teams have been created to discuss where our industry is at, what their needs and wants are, and what’s expected in the next few years, with each team of eight to ten individuals covering its own area – Editorial, Production, Advertising, Circulation, Independent Publishers, Corporate Publishers.
What’s required? We are looking for industry representatives to put some thought to a series of questions and then be available for a conference call in August that is expected to take a few hours. Your input will be crucial to the board forming the future direction of the association and the development of programs and services to meet the changing needs of the community newspaper industry. Please be part of this interesting look at our industry.
If interested please contact Carla Alexander at c.alexander@ocna.org and let her know which Work Team you would like to participate in.
What’s required? We are looking for industry representatives to put some thought to a series of questions and then be available for a conference call in August that is expected to take a few hours. Your input will be crucial to the board forming the future direction of the association and the development of programs and services to meet the changing needs of the community newspaper industry. Please be part of this interesting look at our industry.
If interested please contact Carla Alexander at c.alexander@ocna.org and let her know which Work Team you would like to participate in.
OCNA Staff
Metroland holds ‘Connecting With Your Community’ contest
Fri, 07/30/2010 - 10:07Stepping up in crisis
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:34Congratulations to the team at the Goderich Signal-Star who rallied this week after a horrific trucking accident that seriously injured its occupants and destroyed 300,000 flyers destined for homes throughout Huron County. Advertising Manager Kevin Shrier told OCNA how everyone pulled together over three days to contact the clients, get flyers produced, shipped, and distributed to readers without missing a beat. The accident happened on a stretch of Hwy 8 between Stratford and Mitchell and caused the truck to burst into flames.
Newspapers behind Internet and TV as information source in U.S study
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 13:17The Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism released the ninth edition of its Digital Future Project this week. The Digital Future Report, which has tracked a non-representative sample of Internet users in the U.S. since 2000, has identified an assortment of findings on the influence of the Internet and online technology.
ABC expands board with Canadian representatives
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 13:13At the July meeting the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) board of directors voted to expand its list of North American directors from 36 to 38 with one new Canadian newspaper publisher and advertiser or ad agency representative. Shelagh Stoneham, vice president brand and marketing communications at Rogers Communications Inc., will represent Canadian advertisers.
Community Newspaper Collaborations
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 13:11When news strikes in your community, do you stop to consider its impact on other locales? What about collaborating with other community newspapers to cover the story from a different angle? With the success of this year’s Community Newspaper Review program, which saw the inclusion of out-of-province publications for the first time, OCNA hopes to encourage further collaboration between community newspapers both within Ontario and across the country.
Learning from mistakes made in the newsroom
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 15:41Like all humans, journalists are far from perfect. It is inevitable that typos will be made, names misspelled, or sources misquoted (and in some cases, a wildly blatant error such as the Chicago Tribune’s 1948 headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” could be made).
WANTED Tech.: Newspapers can take advantage of the hiring boom
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 15:34After recessions end, employers start hiring again. The increase in hiring demand creates opportunities not only for those looking for jobs, but companies that provide services to employers. A whitepaper prepared by WANTED Technologies Corporation, a real-time employment analytics company based in Quebec City, has examined ten different ways newspapers and other suppliers can take advantage of the hiring boom when it comes.
Burnout in online journalism
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 15:31According to an article in the New York Times, media organizations today face many more stresses than they did even ten years ago. The pace of news distribution is much more frantic, particularly online, and as a result journalists are more likely to suffer from burnout than ever before. This appears to be the case at digital news organizations whose existence depends on how quickly it can tell readers something the competition has not.
Postmedia Network announces executive team
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:18Two days after closing a $1.1 billion sale with Canwest to acquire its print and online assets (11 major daily and 26 community newspapers, including some of Canada’s largest dailies), recently formed Postmedia Network has announced its executive team.
