Canada’s corporate media remains unchanged, even though the extensive Canwest newspaper chain has been sold (for $1.1 billion) and renamed Postmedia Network Inc.
From a July 17, 2010, story from the Vancouver Sun, we see that the major players are merely changing their jackets:
… The senior team, which will run the country’s largest metropolitan newspaper chain, will be led by newly-installed CEO Paul Godfrey and includes Kirk Allen, former senior vice-president of advertising sales within Canwest, as well as Doug Lamb, the firm’s former chief financial officer, a company said in a statement.
The pair will assume the same roles with Postmedia Network and will be joined by Kevin Bent and Gordon Fisher, who were appointed executive vice-presidents of operations in Western and Eastern Canada, respectively.
Fisher moves from publisher of the National Post to president. Editor-in-chief Douglas Kelly has been appointed the new publisher of the chain’s national newspaper. Deputy editor Stephen Meurice replaces Kelly as editor-in-chief….
