The St. Catharines Standard
I choose to do my essay on the St. Catharines Standard. The Standard is the St.Catharines and Thorold area newspaper. It provides us with the local news, advertising and it keeps us in touch with what is happening all over the world. It was first owned and runned by the Burgoyne family and was printed in
St. Catharines but, was sold last year to Southam Inc. and has started to be printed in Hamilton. Southam Inc. also owns other papers such as The Hamilton
Spectator,The Ottawa Citizen and The Kingston Wig. Here are some questions that
I have made up about The Standard and I have found the answers for them.
1. How important is The Standard to our economy?
The Standard is pretty important to our economy. It provides the peoples of St.Catharines and Hamillton with jobs. It also let's the local businesses advertise their business to the people and attracts businesses to St.
Catharines. Which brings money to the city. And finally, I provides St.
Catharines with the daily news about the city and all over the world.
2. What is the source and type of the paper and why is it used?
The Standard gets their paper from wherever they can get it the cheapest.
It is Recycled Newsprint. Recycled newsprint is paper that has been previously used paper that has been shredded, de-inked and then turned into pulp so it can make paper again. This type of paper is used because its economical, lightweight, recyclable and is available world wide.
3. What is the process of making the St. Catharines Standard?
The First step in making the newspaper is in the advertising department.
The workers in the advertising dept. sell space in the paper to local businesses for ads. This pays for the paper to be made. Then the ads are produced and are redied for the paper a day before it has to be made. After the ad space is sold the paper is sent up to the editorial room so they can look at the space not occupied by ads and decide what stories the need to fill up the paper. Now to make the paper! The pages are assembled and the ads and stories are cut and pasted on to boards. After that a negative is shot of the board.
Paper chromatography is the ability to separate specific parts of a mixture, in order to identify its content. There are many forms of chromatography, but paper chromatography tends to work with substances such as dyes, inks, or any colored chemical. In the fields of biology, paper chromatography benefits police that need to test blood. It can also be used by chemists to test substances in their labs. Lastly, it can be used to identify compounds that may be in a plant substance.
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Newspapers in Australia have never been sustainable in their own right. Once newspapers were two businesses, the sale of news and the sale of advertising (Simons 2011). However, in the modern media environment classified ads no longer come hot off the press on a Saturday morning combined with the daily news. Classified ads are now online, available anytime, and the companies selling the advertising often have nothing to do with news reporting. Media organisations therefore are suffering from variations of the collapse of the pre Internet business model but, because of its dependence on classifieds, Fairfax has had a faster decline than most other Australian newspapers (Simons 2011). Advertising online is cheap, and in the web-based world Fairfax does not have a monopoly or a premium position to gain from Internet based news delivery. The mistakes made in the transition to a digital business and the failure to diversify brought Fairfax to its knees,
Strait and Ungava Bay; on the east by Labrador (Which is a part of Newfoundland),
For years, the population has been exposed to different forms of media. Newspapers, magazines, television, films, radio, and more recently the Internet are ways of promoting ideas, spreading news, and advertising products.
Canada is the best place in the word to do business and foreign investment. According to forbes magazines Canada is the best country in G20 for business and banking system has also rated as the world 's soundest for the past six years. There are some countries in the world with a triple A rating and Canada is one of them. This provide confidence to investors to do business in Canada.
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special type of ink. It does not back gold like it use to. In the future, we
Robins, Wayne. “Newspapers Get Real.” Editor and Publisher 16 July 2001: 16. 4 Oct. 2001 .
In recent years, digital media has become more popular, and is one of the reasons why print media is facing a financial crunch. The average American adult spends five hou...
Pendleton, Scott. “Sellers Tickled by Demand for Recycled Paper.” The Christian Science Monitor 26 August 1997.
The Web. 21 Apr. 2014. The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'. Hamilton, Jill, ed., pp. 113-117.
Many advertisers are spending time and money on online technologies. More marketers are advertising on internet and more companies are doing online business as well, so this is increasing the revenue of online media. Newspaper advertisement is declining because internet advertisement is facilitating both the marketers and the consumers. (Evans, David S. 2009)
Newsprint used to be International Paper’s main product, but it is no longer produced by that company since it was so unprofitable (‘A Short History of”, 1998). Very few companies manufacture newsprint anymore due to the fact that most people get their news via radio, television, and various other internet sources. Emails and social media posts have all but replaced Christmas, birthday, and get-well cards. Magazines are read online, Christmas catalogs have been replaced by online sales, and the vast majority of our junk mail has been transformed into spam in our email boxes. Corrugated and cardboard boxes have been replaced by plastic “clamshells”. Even our government has gotten into the act of reducing paper by forcing the use of electronic health records in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“Key Features of the”, 2015). Because paper products are used in so many different applications, there is virtually no end to the substitute products which are
In a study conducted by State of the Media, it claims that one of the main problems in the newspaper industry is the rapidly declining advertising revenues. As seen in the below dataset, as print advertising revenues have fallen by 58%, online revenues have grown by 117% in the past decade. It can also been seen that when the world faced a global recession in 2009, the revenue from ads plunged dramatically and in turn has only accelerated print journalism’s woes.