Welcome to episode two of The Coast’s 25th-anniversary podcast. This week arts editor Tara Thorne and city editor Jacob Boon talk about Friends and Rita and Friends. We look back at Shakespeare by the Sea, watch as the city makes its first failed effort to make amends for Africville and discuss the practicalities of racing […]
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Coast 25: Ahead by a quarter-century
Media has always been sensitive to technological advances. The printing press changed things. The telegraph changed things. Television changed things. The internet seems to be changing everything. When we started The Coast, in pre-internet June 1993, we were six friends from the University of King’s College—the two of us, plus Andy Lamey, Andy Pedersen, Aran […]
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Atlantic News delivers your Saturday Globe and Mail fix
Saturday is always the busiest day of the week at Atlantic News, the venerable newsstand/temple of media, so it stands to reason Fridays aren’t exactly slow. And sure enough, this morning the shop was humming—staff at two cash registers, someone in the back room unpacking boxes of magazines, multiple phone lines ringing. But it was […]
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What’s asked of women in the film industry
If I decide not to report someone when they make an inappropriate comment, does it make me an enabler? If I continue to work with someone who I’ve heard rumours about does it make me complicit? If I post this sexy photo on my social media, does it make me more of a target? I […]
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Local Xpress spins-off into HalifaxToday
The Chronicle Herald’s newsroom strike may have laid the groundwork for the paper’s newest competitor. Ontario’s Village Media is looking to hire an online community editor for its new HalifaxToday website. “HalifaxToday.com is coming soon and Village Media is looking for a full-time community editor to help launch our latest online-only news site,” reads an […]
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Saltwire deal earned Chronicle Herald $664,474 in federal funding
More than half a million dollars isn’t bad for a government rebate, especially in the newspaper business. The Chronicle Herald’s Saltwire Network received $664,474 in federal funding this year as a direct result of buying up the competition’s newspapers in Atlantic Canada. It’s money that would have gone to Transcontinental but hadn’t yet been awarded […]
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Layoffs and wage cuts in tentative Chronicle Herald deal
The Chronicle Herald strike could soon be over, but not everyone is celebrating. Roughly half of the Halifax Typographical Union will see their jobs evaporate, even if members approve a tentative agreement that will increase work hours and cut wages. The deal in question was brokered by lawyer William Kaplan this past weekend, after two […]
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Another spokesperson vacates city hall for greener pastures
For the fourth time in 15 months, Halifax has lost one of its public relations team. Lucas Wide is leaving his position as a senior communications advisor with the Halifax Regional Municipality after just six months on the job. 
Wide confirms in an email he’ll be starting a new position next week with the Nova […]
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Q&A: Andrew Younger on the media and privacy
Even in terms of Andrew Younger’s headline-filled political career, last week was a whopper. The former Dartmouth East MLA was hospitalized over a still-undisclosed health concern, which prompted his wife to file an emergency protection order with the courts. Both Andrew and Katia Younger maintain it was to ensure safe supervision for their son and […]
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Chronicle Herald buys all TC newspapers in Atlantic Canada
In one of the biggest Atlantic Canadian media stories in recent memory, the Chronicle Herald has purchased all of Transcontinental’s 28 newspapers, websites and four of its printing plants. All of Transcontinental’s media outlets in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have been sold and will operate—along with the Herald’s […]
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What the fuck does Jesse Brown know about Atlantic Canada?
Jesse Brown, founder and host of CANADALAND, is an award-winning journalist and outspoken media critic. Parker Donham, publisher at Contrarian.ca, is also an award-winning journalist and fiercely opinionated about local media. In advance of Brown visiting Halifax this weekend for a live podcast recording with University of King’s College journalism professor Terra Tailleur and Halifax […]
