PR Week to end publication of Canadian Newsletter
Posted by Joseph Thornley on April 30th, 2009
Here’s sad news: PR Week will announce Monday that it is shutting down its Canadian Newsletter.
This comes on the heels of PR Week’s announcement that it would take its weekly main publication exclusively online, gate its content and switch its print publication to a monthly magazine format. On top of this, Editor-in-Chief Keith O’Brien earlier this month left PR Week to join a PR firm.
Last year, PR Week established a Canadian Newsletter and Canadian PR Week microsite in order to generate additional Canadian subscribers and advertising. Signs began to emerge in March that this effort was in trouble. First, PR Week announced that it was changing the publishing schedule of the Canadian Newsletter to monthly from semi-monthly. Then, PR Week quietly cancelled plans for a Canadian Roundtable and Thought Leader Breakfast. They had tried without luck to find sponsors to host this both in Vancouver and Toronto. Now, the Canadian Newsletter will be cancelled altogether.
These are tough times. I wish the folks at PR Week well and hope that they make it through to the other side of the recession.
April 30th, 2009 » 11:14 am
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April 30th, 2009 » 11:38 am
I’ll second those sentiments. PR Week is a valuable read, and one of the best ways I have of staying up-to-date on the industry.
April 30th, 2009 » 7:43 pm
I’m going to miss it. I thought PRWeek Canada did a good job showcasing our work to our friends south of the border…
April 30th, 2009 » 7:56 pm
@thornley has sad news that the Canadian PRWeek newsletter is being folded, as well as PRWeek -> PRMonth http://tr.im/ka45
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May 1st, 2009 » 8:11 am
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May 13th, 2009 » 12:18 am
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