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Alberta Newspaper: The Brooks Bulletin – Three Generations of Alberta...
The Brooks Bulletin, first published in 1910, was not the first newspaper to be published in Alberta. The now defunct Edmonton Bulletin, first published in 1880, holds this distinction. Nor is it the...
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Postmedia Network Now the Largest Digital News & Newspaper Organization in...
Postmedia Network closed the $316 million deal for 173 Sun Media publications from Quebecor, creating the largest newspaper organization in Canada. The now own all Sun Media’s properties in Alberta...
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Alberta Book: Eye Opener Bob: The Story of Bob Edwards & Journalism in Early...
Forty-six years later these words still ring true: there has since been no book that has brought to life early Calgary the way that Eye Opener Bob does. Perhaps more importantly, it’s the closest we’ll...
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Help Support J-Source Expand their Journalism Coverage in Alberta and Across...
Journalism in Canada is evolving and J-Source, produced by a collaboration of post-secondary journalism schools and programs led by Ryerson University, Université Laval and Carleton University and...
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Alberta Newspaper: The Gauntlet, University of Calgary’s Campus Newspaper...
The Gauntlet is the official student newspaper of the University of Calgary, published since 1960 most Thursdays throughout the year by the Gauntlet Publications Society, an autonomous, incorporated...
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Winners of 67th National Newspaper Award Nominations to be Announced at Gala...
Toronto’s Globe and Mail leads all entrants in the 67th National Newspaper Awards competition with 19 nominations. Montreal’s La Presse has seven finalists, the Toronto Star six, the Winnipeg Free...
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A Brief History of Journal Le Franco Newspaper in Alberta
In 1898 the first Franco-Albertan newspaper in Western Canada was founded. By 1928, six French newspapers emerged. Not all had the same longevity and some were successful outside the borders of the...
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The Future of [Newspaper] Journalism by Gillian Stewart for CAJ’s Media Magazine
Watching the movie Spotlight is a bittersweet experience for many journalists. Here was a movie that made us salivate for the days when publishers and editors actually gave reporters time and money to...
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AWNA to Hold 97th Annual AGM, Convention, Symposium and Alberta Newspaper Awards
The Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association’s 97th Annual Convention will be held this year from June 1 – 3 at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino in Calgary. The convention tees up (pun intended) on...
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Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association Announces Alberta Newspaper Awards for 2016
On May 27, The Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association announced the winners of the ‘Better Newspaper Awards’ at its annual conference. In its category, the St Albert Gazette was the big winner of the...
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Alberta Newspaper — The Red Deer Advocate
The Red Deer Advocate is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta. Published by Black Press, the newspaper was first established in 1901 as the Red Deer Echo, changing its name to Alberta Advocate in...
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Postmedia Announces Vanessa Hrvatin as the Recipient of Michelle Lang...
Starting November 27, 2017, Vanessa Hrvatin is spending the first six months working at the National Post in Toronto before spending the next six months of the Fellowship working at the Calgary Herald....
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A Brief History of Newspapers in Alberta, Canada and Beyond
One of the earliest publications that could be described as a daily newspaper appeared in Rome around 69 B.C. It was a primitive news sheet called Acta Diurna (acts of the day) and described the...
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Survival of the Richest: One Future for Newspapers by Fred Stenson for...
The newspaper business has been in trouble for a long time. One of the gaudier proofs was last year, when Torstar and Postmedia traded a bunch of newspapers for the purpose of killing them. That is,...
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The Red Deer Advocate and Other Black Press Newspapers in Central Alberta
Published by Black Press (the largest private newspaper publisher in Canada), the Red Deer Advocate was first established in 1901 as the Red Deer Echo, changing its name to Alberta Advocate in 1903 and...
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Boyle McCauley News Enters Its 41st Year Facing New Challenges and a New...
Boyle McCauley News is a non-profit newspaper published monthly by the Boyle Street McCauley Community Newspaper Society in Edmonton since 1979 and edited since April 2006 by Paula Kirman. The Society...
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Great West Newspapers, Publisher of the St Albert Gazette, Launches Online...
The St. Albert Gazette, a member of Great West Newspapers, has chronicled the lives of residents in St Albert and the Sturgeon Valley area for more than 58 years. The paper was founded in 1961 in the...
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Hybrid and Standalone Startup Online News Platforms on the Rise in Alberta
Over the last year or so, there has been a marked increase in the number of community newspapers, radio stations and even a television station in Alberta creating separate digital platforms to...
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Windspeaker.com, Alberta’s Indigenous Voice Coming to You Online and On Air
The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA) is an Aboriginal publisher dedicated to serving the needs of Aboriginal people throughout Canada but it didn’t start out this way, AMMSA was established in...
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The Gauntlet, University of Calgary’s Student Newspaper to Celebrate 60 Years
Produced by the Gauntlet Publications Society in Calgary, Alberta, The Gauntlet has been the official student newspaper of the University of Calgary since 1960. Today, they publish a physical...
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