The Globe and Mail will cease distributing the printed publication east of the Quebec border, Publisher Phillip Crawley has announced. No more Globe in St. John, Fredericton or Halifax. Nor St.John’s, Nfld. it seems. The Globe and Mail’s long history and eminent ownership places it among newspapers most reasonably capable of survival in the digital age. The Thomson family owns 85 percent of the paper. The decision to stop printing in Halifax “because of the cost” is really a statement about the permanently damaged model for advertising. It is the flight of ads to uncountable free alternatives and particularly of want ads, which have disappeared (along with their readers) to locations as far apart as Kijiji and neighborhood Facebook pages. CBC
