Are we newspapers dead yet?

It's been a popular media topic since the late Ken Thomson, chairman of Canada's largest newspaper chain, sold the last of his dailies in 2001 and coldly observed electronic publishing was 'a superior business.' But the jury's still out.

Suppose they gave an anniversary and nobody came? A recent media milestone passed without comment, the publication of the first Canadian newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, in 1752. It was a concise summary of shipping news and foreign headlines. As print journalists we ought to celebrate 255 yea...

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