National Post offers all newsroom the chance at a buyout; not all will get one

The National Post, in the wake of similar offers at other Postmedia papers across Canada, is offering its entire newsroom the opportunity to apply for a buyout. According to J-Source, not everyone applying will receive such a payout. The employees have until Friday to decide. The Torontoist quotes an unnamed National Post source as saying the buyout offers are "just a way of trimming the fat,"

Globe editor tells journalists that re-launched paper will be "magazine-style"

[ This post has been updated] I'm only now catching up (courtesy of J-source) with John Stackhouse of the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest circulation national paper, saying last weekto the Canadian Association of Journalists  that the daily newspaper model as it stands is doomed and that when his paper relaunches this fall it will be as a daily full-colour magazine-style publication printed on

U.S. news executives worry about the future state of journalism and its fundamental values

A study of the attitudes of newspaper and broadcast executives about the future of journalism in their media found them concerned about the state of journalism.

The study was conducted with 208 executives by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. And while they see some positives in the changes they are witnessing, they are worried about the future. 

For instance, they

News-sharing deals becoming widespread

Last week, we ran an item about the CBC and the National Post swapping content -- CBC sports coverage for National Post business coverage -- an interesting and relatively inexpensive way for both to reach wider audiences. We hadn't realized what a widespread trend such sharing arrangements were.A story on MediaDailyNews reports that The Washington Post and Bloomberg News have agreed to launch a

Quote, unquote: the Globe and Mail's "grubby" redesign

The Globe redesign’s a bit of a mess – what happens when designers are given too much latitude, I’d say…Generally, it’s much too fussy: too many rules, the type is too cramped and everything is crammed in – would be better if the stories were well written but, as usual, the Globe writing style is more verbose than elegant (unlike, say, The Guardian which has marvelous, quirky, writers).I think

What will the papers say?

Although it is fixated on newspapers, many magazine journalists and publishers make a point of reading the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Now this venerable magazine has undergone a transformative experience of its own, with a redesign showing up with its March/April issue. Of course, the cover story is a big piece by Robert Kuttner on the future of newspapers in the age of the