Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption

by Brian Gorman

In 2014, when Postmedia acquired Quebecor's Sun Media newspaper and online assets, there was a sense that the recent history of newspapers was repeating itself not as comedy or tragedy, but as eulogy. Crash to Paywall shows that while the newspaper business was weakened by decreases in advertising revenues and circulation, much of its problems stem from self-inflicted damage and business practices dating back to the 1970s. Brian Gorman explores the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773545921
• ISBN13: 9780773545922
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"