Reports of a new decline in advertising spending due to the coronavirus outbreak are just the latest insult to the downtrodden newspaper business struggling to catch its breath in what has seemed like an endless epidemic of change. The venerable Montreal daily La Presse stopped its presses almost three years ago after 133 years of appearing on newsprint. Good news storyBut now, after a difficult patch that involved serious cost-cutting, La Presse appears to be back on the road to success, said Daoust-Boisvert. The tablet version of La Presse suffered when tablets, seen at the time as the future, were overtaken by mobile phones, says Amélie Daoust-Boisvert. "It's very expensive to do," says Unland, who now runs her own successful online news business for the Alberta capital, called Taproot Publishing.

Source: CBC News March 09, 2020 08:02 UTC