Articles Written By: Dennis

AWNA President Mary Kemmis has invited Alberta’s regional daily newspapers to join the association as affiliate members. Those invited include the Lethbridge Herald, Medicine Hat News, Red Deer Advocate, Grande…Read more →

Craig Barnard The AWNA board appointed Postmedia executive Craig Barnard as a director at its meeting on November 26th.  Craig started his newspaper career in 1978 as the Circulation Manager of…Read more →

Justin Marshall, press secretary for Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard, heard from a few members that were frustrated about the two press conferences held last week – one for the…Read more →

We’d like to invite members to publish a version of Dana’s column (see two files attached). Dana's introduction is included here as well explaining to why this may be of…Read more →

AWNA and its advertising partner agency – Ad Canada Media, met with the Premier’s communications dept on July 6th to pitch a regular paid feature in Alberta’s community weeklies that would…Read more →

The AWNA has decided to add its voice to a growing chorus that implores the Government of Canada to intervene in Google and Facebook’s domination of the digital media landscape. …Read more →

The premier has requested a postponement of his press conference with AWNA editors.He has asked for it to be rescheduled to the following time/date: Tuesday, April 7th, at 2:30 p.m.…Read more →

Postmedia has announced that it will close the Edson Leader, Hinton Parklander and Lacombe Globe newspapers. The sluggish economy has been particularly hard on the company’s Alberta titles, said Craig…Read more →