HALIFAX — The four dailies belonging to the SaltWire network in Atlantic Canada will soon cease publication on Mondays, although there will be digital editions. In a post Tuesday, SaltWire said the change takes effect Oct. 1.
HALIFAX — The four dailies belonging to the SaltWire network in Atlantic Canada will soon cease publication on Mondays, although there will be digital editions.
In an article published Tuesday, SaltWire said the change will take effect Oct. 17 at the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, the Cape Breton Post in Sydney, N.S., the Guardian in Charlottetown and the Telegram in St. John’s, Onshore. -New.
SaltWire COO Ian Scott says rising costs are to blame.
He says the change will not impact newsroom staffing levels.
Scott says the Monday print editions have generally generated the least ad revenue.
The announcement follows a similar announcement made last month by Postmedia, which said its Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal newspapers would stop publishing Monday print editions on Oct. 17.
SaltWire says it plans to expand its weekend logs.
“While readers accustomed to holding a physical Monday newspaper in their hands will no longer be able to do so, the four publications will continue to produce digital Monday editions featuring local stories, opinion pieces and other content,” said Scott.
“What we’re looking to do is expand (paper) Saturday with some extra puzzles and comics and things of that nature, so that the reader who chooses to buy it on a Saturday or Sunday or Monday has the option to pick it up and have something more than today’s standard weekend edition.”
The Newfoundland Telegram stopped producing a Sunday edition in 2008, and the Halifax Chronicle Herald stopped producing a Sunday edition in 2013.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on October 4, 2022.
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