A front page article in February’s Bloor West Town Crier regarding a large sculpture stolen from an artist’s garage has led to its recovery. 'Baba', a 27-kilogram cement sculpture was found outside a local pub by a good Samaritan who police say recognized the piece from the article in the Town Crier.

The Canadian Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association are inviting their members to design a new logo and theme both associations can use for joint marketing purposes. The two national associations, representing daily and weekly newspapers, have been operating jointly for the past two years under a co-management agreement. As that agreement has now been extended for another two years, they are considering a new identity for marketing purposes.

After 10 years of running the company his father founded, Leonard Asper has resigned. On Thursday, Asper officially stepped down from his position as CEO and from the board of Canwest Global Communications Corp. citing a conflict of interest.

Asper had been working with New York investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group to launch a bid that would rival one made by cable giant Shaw Communications Inc., but was turned down by an Ontario judge.

A recent advertisement placed on the website of University of Wisconsin’s student newspaper, The Badger Herald, has raised questions on the value of freedom of speech and the potential harm of certain messages. The online ad, a small and seemingly inconspicuous text link reads, ‘The Holocaust Questions: The Power of Taboo,’ but leads to a website denying the Holocaust.

Jason Smathers, editor at the Badger Herald, wrote of the decision to run the $75 ad in a recent edition of the newspaper.

On February 25, Austin Community Newspapers (ACN) notified the Texas Press Association of a scam in the Austin area that has the potential to surface in other markets.

Apparently someone had used the classified section of one of the ACN's newspapers, the Austin American-Statesman, scanning them for advertiser’s phone numbers. After placing a call to an advertiser, and posing as a Statesman employee, the scammer would ask them to verify their credit card information. Once in their possession they would then use it to make fraudulent charges.

Attacks on Tamil newspaper owners and employees are not uncommon in Canada, as the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) notes in its latest media release.

After the plate glass windows at the office at a Scarborough newspaper were smashed last weekend, the CJFE condemned the act, and “and all other acts of intimidation that have been used to silence dissenting voices in the Tamil community” across the country. The newspaper, Uthayan, is read by the local Tamil community within the city and has been in print for the past 15 years.

Editors love to have a healthy Letters to the Editor section as it can be a good measure of how involved your community is in the local democratic process and how your readers react to the news your report.

In response to the increasing advances in printing technology, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is launching The Printing Summit on April 13-15 in Salzburg, Austria.

While covering the Sir John A. Macdonald birthday celebrations on January 11 at Kingston City Park, Kingston This Week news editor Lynn Rees Lambert was called in front of the crowd to receive an award of her own. Local historian and author Arthur Milnes presented Lambert with a Great Canadian Award, in recognition of her efforts to support and promote local history in the Kingston community.