The Newsroom

Putting links to your stores on Twitter is fine. But when those links take me to graphics-laden pages that take $90 worth of airtime to download on my BlackBerry, you've kind of missed the point of linking to your stories on Twitter.

Due to tough times in the blogging business, I have decided to stop posting on Mondays in an effort to conserve resources. .... nah, just kidding. Unlike a certain other business .

edmontonsun.com - Opinion/Comment - Read 'em and keep Why do we let you read our product for free online? Good question. We have no choice but to do so, because everyone else does.

Toronto Sun Family: 1971 - 2008: TorSun cuts? Could (today) be Black Tuesday for the Toronto Sun? Tipsters say an undisclosed number of employees who arrive at work Tuesday will leave as the latest victims of Quebecor's hatchet. "It ain't over," one Sun vet said of the cutbacks that have ravaged the Toronto Sun since Quebecor bought Sun Media in 1999. "No one knows who yet, but it is supposed to be big," said another newsroom staffer. Another TSF tipster said staff could be cut by 10%. UPDATE: Unfortunately, this story is entirely true. . Sun Media Announces Workforce Reductions Last update: 10:45 a.m. EST Dec. 16, 2008 TORONTO, ONTARIO, Dec 16, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- As a result of the fundamental transformation under way in the newspaper industry in recent years and the accelerated deterioration of economic activity affecting its print media revenue sources, Sun Media Corporation, Canada's largest publisher of newspapers, has announced that i...

I pop up this morning on the Toronto Sun Family Blog .

Fading to Black: 'Thank God I got out' Only I didn't get out to write a book.

For the fifth time in the last 21 days, our Edmonton Journal was not properly delivered today. The previous four times, we didn't get a paper at all. Today, we're "only" missing one-third of the sections. (Even the Edmonton Sun's spotty delivery record didn't match this level of mediocrity.) I know as well as anyone that the newspaper business is in trouble. The industry should not accelerate its demise through poor service to the dwindling number of customers willing to pay for a dead-tree version of the product.

Read all of the bad news here. I suspect in the not-too-distant future people will look back on the death of the Daily News as the first of many major daily newspapers to be euthanized in favour of the slimmed-down free paper instead.

I suppose this comment is a tad hypocritical as my wife sits at the breakfast table beside me reading the newspaper at 7:29 a.m. on a Saturday, but ... As newspapers struggle with falling circulation, which results in staff cuts (ahem!), and, in Alberta, are having a tough time finding adult carriers due to the labour crunch ... have they considered that perhaps the morning publishing and delivery model isn't working for them anymore? As a teenager, I delivered the Winnipeg Free Press after school because the Freep, like pretty much every other paper, delivered in the afternoons so that people had their newspaper when they arrived home at suppertime. The Sun chain, which published in the mornings and emphasized single-copy sales rather than delivery, changed the entire model for the industry. Now everyone delivers in the mornings. In Alberta, this has resulted in massive turnover of carriers - teens can't deliver the paper at 5 a.m., and not many adults want to, either. Plus, w...