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The Mutation 1900-1967
Journalism started to spread like wild fire, a lot more people became journalists through these years, and became more popular all together in Canada. -
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100 Years Of Journalism
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All That Money
There was a huge growth of industry in Ontario and Quebec,
also with the large amount of people coming to live on the prairies, produced a large more popular newspaper-reading population. The result was a golden age for Canadian newspapers peaking about 1911. -
People To Sad to Read
Many papers failed during the war era. 1914-1918 -
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Advertising, and Rising Up
Between 1914 and 1931; Successful publishers in larger centers became part of the corporate elite. The model of journalism based on the "independent" editor-publisher was obsolete. -
1920 Big Time
Big-city dailies settled down to a superficial formula of day-to-day headline journalism. -
Papers Not Sold Out
Budget-cutting and dropping of traditional party affiliation. By 1930 only 24% of Canada's dailies were grouped, 17% were "independent" grouped, and the majority, 50%, had become fully independent. -
Winning Over
CP had become a nationwide co-operative of member papers, controlling the rights to the Associated Press world report. -
Merging Of Companies
The two main papers in Toronto merged: The Globe (circulation 78,000) absorbed The Mail and Empire (circulation 118,000). -
Tv and Radio
For advertising and promoting they used Newsreels and radio. However once the television came out in the 1950s, old newspaper formats no longer assured a market share of readers or of advertisers. In the resulting uncertainty, journalists found greater latitude for initiative. -
The Media Takes Over
Media newspapers started instead of the physical papers, there started to be a lot more competition
