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How newspapers used to be

I am in Vancouver and enjoying reading The Globe and Mail. This is a newspaper how I remember it – compared to what we now see in Australia.

The Globe and Mail features actual news on the front cover and inside. There is little or no clickbait. No ads cluttering the front page either. It’s a narrow paper physically, 30.48cm wide. I like this format, Berliner I think it is called.

From WAN-IFRA I can see that The Globe and Mail has 300,000 subscribers, of which 210,000 are digital-only and 95,000 are print subscribers. Elsewhere I found out that print circulation is reportedly 65,000 copies a day.

It’s readily available in shops and hotels.

Here in Canada newspapers appear less engaged in politics. They report it for sure. What’s missing is the lobbying and agitation we see often in Australian newspapers.

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