Comments on: MédiaMatinQuébec hits two million http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/08/mediamatinquebec-hits-two-million/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fagstein » MédiaMatinQuébec: Changing the face of labour stoppages http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/08/mediamatinquebec-hits-two-million/comment-page-1/#comment-1590 Fagstein » MédiaMatinQuébec: Changing the face of labour stoppages Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:17:21 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=504#comment-1590 [...] fellow journalists, and of course the Quebec City reading public. They’ve handed out millions of copies, and launched a website at mediamatinquebec.com. They’ve even started stealing away [...] [...] fellow journalists, and of course the Quebec City reading public. They’ve handed out millions of copies, and launched a website at mediamatinquebec.com. They’ve even started stealing away [...]

]]> By: Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/08/mediamatinquebec-hits-two-million/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Fagstein Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:41:59 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=504#comment-984 UPDATE: <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=623" rel="nofollow">They're online now</a>. UPDATE: They're online now.

]]> By: Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/08/mediamatinquebec-hits-two-million/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Fagstein Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:20:18 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=504#comment-749 <a href="http://torontosunfamily.blogspot.com/2007/07/mediamatin-2m.html" rel="nofollow">You're welcome</a> You're welcome

]]> By: Nicolas http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/08/mediamatinquebec-hits-two-million/comment-page-1/#comment-730 Nicolas Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:01:59 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=504#comment-730 The <i>Journal de Québec</i> is the dominant daily in Quebec city. I'm not sure that in order to compete they need more regional journalism. They get to that dominant with substandard local reporting. According to the data that surfaced during the dispute between the <i>Journal de Montréal</i> union and the cie over the use of the Montreal news room content in the Quebec paper during the conflict, a "normal" issue of the <i>Journal de Québec</i> is made of only 30% original, localy produced news. The rest is made of content produced in Montreal for the <i>Journal de Montréal</i> (30 to 40%) or the various news agency (CP, AFP, AP, etc.... 30 to 40%). On the other side, the "competition" have the biggest newsroom --bigger then every other media-- and produce localy some 70% of it's content. Despise that, <i>Le Soleil</i> is only a shadow of it's former self and only get about a third of the market. A note on Media Matin Quebec: the only thing they have in comon with 24H, Metro and other free dailies is that they are... free (and produced 5 days a week). They have much, much, much more staff (140 people + the printing crew!) with a hell of a lot more experience (usualy, you dont get people with 40 years of experience writting for a free paper). Most of the content is purely local and original (I'd say 90%). Article are longueur (but shorter then in the <i>Journal de Québec</i>) and there are more pictures. And almost no advertisement. So, it's about 20 full pages of news every morning with a focus on purely local stuff. The Journal de Québec is the dominant daily in Quebec city. I'm not sure that in order to compete they need more regional journalism. They get to that dominant with substandard local reporting. According to the data that surfaced during the dispute between the Journal de Montréal union and the cie over the use of the Montreal news room content in the Quebec paper during the conflict, a "normal" issue of the Journal de Québec is made of only 30% original, localy produced news. The rest is made of content produced in Montreal for the Journal de Montréal (30 to 40%) or the various news agency (CP, AFP, AP, etc.... 30 to 40%). On the other side, the "competition" have the biggest newsroom --bigger then every other media-- and produce localy some 70% of it's content. Despise that, Le Soleil is only a shadow of it's former self and only get about a third of the market.

A note on Media Matin Quebec: the only thing they have in comon with 24H, Metro and other free dailies is that they are... free (and produced 5 days a week). They have much, much, much more staff (140 people + the printing crew!) with a hell of a lot more experience (usualy, you dont get people with 40 years of experience writting for a free paper). Most of the content is purely local and original (I'd say 90%). Article are longueur (but shorter then in the Journal de Québec) and there are more pictures. And almost no advertisement. So, it's about 20 full pages of news every morning with a focus on purely local stuff.

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