Media

EDITORIAL – Mourning the loss of the city’s daily newspaper 10 years ago

January 23, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TEN YEARS AGO, in January 2014, Kamloops lost its daily newspaper. I don’t think the city has fully recovered. The Kamloops Daily News [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why would anybody in their right mind go into journalism?

October 21, 2023 // 7 Comments

STOP ME IF YOU’VE heard this one but, in 1968, I was broke, out of a job, and had a young family to support. I’d been fired from a Prince George newspaper after it [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: It’s hard to imagine Kamloops without a print newspaper

October 18, 2023 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A TOWN WITHOUT A NEWSPAPER is a sad thing to see. We’ll get a first-hand view of it after Kamloops This Week publishes its last edition [Continue]

MEDIA – Rising costs cited as cause of Kamloops This Week’s demise

October 17, 2023 // 4 Comments

Kamloops will be without a newspaper as of next Wednesday, Oct. 25. That’s when Kamloops This Week will publish its last edition. Announcement of the closure was made today [Continue]

PETERS – KTW story on closure rumour raises more concerns than it alleviates

September 9, 2023 // 1 Comment

THEY HADN’T MADE THEIR WAY to this part of the world, but apparently there were rumours. Rumours that Kamloops This Week, the city’s last remaining physical newspaper, [Continue]

ONLINE NEWS – The battle with big tech and what it means for journalism

August 13, 2023 // 1 Comment

By ANDY MIAH University of Salford CANADA RECENTLY PASSED a law to address the continuing financial woes of its traditional news media, trust in which has steadily fallen to [Continue]