The final edition of the 59-year-old Sault This Week weekly newspaper was June 25, 2026, just over one month after its parent company Postmedia announced that it will be exiting the business of distributing retail flyers, with which the newspaper was bundled. The website link for Sault This Week now redirects to The Sault Star.

 

The Melfort/Nipawin Journal, publishing since the 2019 merger of the Melfort Journal, Nipawin Journal, and Northeast Sun in Saskatchewan, ended printing in June of 2026 said parent company Postmedia. The Journal will transition from a free printed publication to a fully digital format. The printing press in its Melfort office was closed in 2018. Since then, the printed publication was switched to a free format, with content focusing mostly on provincial news from reporters based in Saskatoon and other larger centres.

 

For three decades, Editor & Publisher Magazine’s EPPY Awards have recognized the innovation, creativity and journalistic excellence that define North American news publishing. Launched in 1996, the awards honour the people, teams and organizations whose work not only has impact, but also advances online journalism and inspires the news-media community. The deadline to submit entries is Friday, September 18, 2026, at 11:59 pm, ET. More information: https://enter.eppyawards.com/

 

CBC/Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, La Presse, Postmedia, Quebecor, Torstar, and TVO Media Education Group, has joined the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition, becoming part of a growing global alliance of news publishers working to ensure that intellectual property owners can control and monetize the use of their content by generative AI applications. The aim is to create a fair market that recognizes the important role that publishers’ intellectual property and journalism play in powering AI systems.

 Postmedia Network has introduced Postmedia Distribution Solutions, a national wholesale distribution and merchandising business connecting publishers, brands, and retailers across Canada. Built on its recently acquired accelerate360 Canada business, the move “expands Postmedia’s national footprint into a complementary sector and strengthens our ability to serve partners from coast to coast,” the company added.

The 2026 Edition of the Canadian Online Publishing Awards has been released. It includes a new division for Audio/Streaming content creators and 8 new categories.

Martin Seto, producer of the COPAs, wanted to do a refresh to make sure the COPA stays fresh and relevant in its 18th year. One of the new categories is AI assisted design, as the COPAs dips its toe in the world of AI.

 

NEW DIVISION

Audio and Streaming Content (Purple)

This division is open to any digital channel that streams audio and video that includes radio, TV and streamers on digital channels (Youtube, Spotify, Apple). 

 

 

The 2025 federal budget announced a total of $38.4 million over three years starting in 2026 to extend the Canada Periodical Fund’s Special Measures for Journalism funding. The application period will close on July 13, 2026, at 4 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). The application guidelines can be found here. The funding portal can be accessed here.

 

NewsGuard, a company whose journalists have evaluated the reliability of over 36,000 online news sources since 2018, have launched NewsGuard AI – the world’s first news aggregation chatbot built to deliver reliable responses to prompts on topics in the news. Responses from over 12,000 news and information sources have been carefully vetted by NewsGuard’s journalists for reliability. It’s available now at www.newsguard.ai. “While the leading AI models regularly generate false claims about controversial news topics, NewsGuard AI offers a new, trustworthy solution,” said the company.