The Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Sun say they will no longer be offering a print edition of their newspapers on Mondays as of Oct. 17.
In a note on each paper's website, editorial senior vice president Gerry Nott said, “The decision reflects the rapidly changing news consumption habits of our readers, the needs of our advertisers and the escalating costs of printing and delivering a printed product.”The Ottawa Citizen traces its origins back to 1845. Earlier this year, the paper received the Key to the City of Ottawa for its coverage of the nation’s capital for more than 175 years.
The Ottawa Sun was a separate paper when it first began publishing in 1983. Postmedia later acquired the Ottawa Sun and merged the two newsrooms in 2016. Several other Postmedia papers are stopping their Monday print editions, including the Montreal Gazette, the Edmonton Journal, the Calgary Sun and the Vancouver Sun.
As Sun and Citizen subscribers we’re used to bad grammar and misspelled words. I just read them with a red marker.
Also the effect of this might just make subscribers realize they manage Mondays with the online version so why subscribe to the printed version at all. Maybe that is their intent, to ease subscribers into it. Followed by an increase in the online version price.
WTF I originally read this as no longer offering print editions starting Monday because just not doing it on Mondays makes no sense at all to me.
Most of us read the Monday papers to catch up on what happened over the weekend: news, sports, concerts, etc. If we are being asked to go see the digital version, then why bother with a newspaper? ottcity Ottawa
Trees rejoice.
I stopped my print subscription a couple of years ago because most days were too light to be worth reading. The internet has national and international news on an instant basis. The Saturday edition was the only one that I felt was worth reading.
“Theur” I kinda enjoy that new way of spelling it.
Thurs turrible
Their*
gmacofglebe Damn need to find something else to line the birdcage with on Monday’s now.
Despite the postmedia double dipping? Despite $52.8 MILLION net PROFIT in January? Smells fishy. CBCOttawa CBCPolitics CBCNews
gmacofglebe It’s tempting to say one day fewer of a Postmedia paper is a good thing, but it is a terrible thing. The ownership should do the honourable thing and divest. We have excellent Royal Commission reports on the Canadian media. We should update and implement their ideas cdnpoli
gmacofglebe Canadian taxpayers' subsidy of American for-profit media not sufficient to keep printers running. Cdn jobs sacrificed to keep revenues in American hands. There's your headline.
What's a newspaper?
I guess I finally have to cave and buy toilet paper now, shucks. costsavings
You guys REALLY need to proofread your tweets. Show some professionalism, please.
With typos like that I can see why…their not theur.
I thought they sold the presses and put in a roller rink.
Just stop printing it all together
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