RIP: Halifax Daily News

[dewline]

I know that I still want daily newspapers in my life, even if I find the current local crop somewhat wanting from time to time and am tempted to aim my subscription dollars at out-of-town papers.

With that in mind, I wanted to send my condolences to anyone lurking or friendlisting here from the Halifax area re: the Daily News. I've seen the news reports on the announced shutdown. I'm sorry to see this happen, as the city could certainly do with the ongoing competition that until now was in play.

More on the subject of newspapers in general to come, I think. I'm just not sure as to when or what form my thoughts will take.

For anyone interested, I note that Justin Beach has some thoughts of his own on the subject at publicbroadcasting.ca.

Comments

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bad news for Halifax for sure. Especially with it being replaced by Metro, of all things...

[steve-roby.livejournal.com]

Unless things have changed since my time, Halifax needs a good newspaper. The Chronically Horrid Mail Star was never that great, and the Bedford Sackville Daily News didn't impress me much, either -- at the time, it didn't seem much more impressive than the average free weekly neighbourhood papers around here, though it obviously grew as it became a Halifax paper. Still, Halifax in the early '80s was a city with a crap broadsheet and an insubstantial tabloid. Hmm... kinda reminds me of someplace else.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yep. Definitely.

Something with the Atkinson Principles (http://www.thestar.com/aboutUs/atkinson) involved, preferably. Doesn't have to be the same owners, though. In fact, it probably shouldn't be the same owners. Media ownership concentration's bad enough as it is.