The Sunday Herald this weekend could be a collector's edition. That is because it may be the last Sunday edition of the Calgary paper ever. While long time journalists decry the cuts, the Herald calls it streamlining for a digital age.
Since 1883 the Calgary Herald has been landing on doorsteps, but it's a new world, a digital world and more people are reading online than on paper. This change is prompting cuts and almost a third of the editorial workforce will be gone by the end of August.
Former Herald Editor Catherine Ford says the demise of the printed page is driven not by readers but by advertisers, moving online. And it’s not the big companies buying full page spread that has forced the changes, but the tiny classified ads now appearing on the likes of Kijiji and Craigslist that once filled entire sections of the broadsheet.
Despite the changes the Heralds Editor in Chief, Lorne Motley maintains newsprint is likely here to stay. Postmedia, which owns the Herald, is also consolidating its national and international news operations in Hamilton.
The Herald is the last Postmedia paper to print seven days a week.
