{"id":181,"date":"2010-07-18T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/07-3\/wheat-from-the-chaff-meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss"},"modified":"2011-07-13T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:21:46","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/181","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/181\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p><span>Canada&#8217;s corporate media remains unchanged, even though the extensive Canwest newspaper chain has been sold (for $1.1 billion) and renamed Postmedia Network Inc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">From a July 17, 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/business\/Postmedia+Network+appoints+executive+team\/3282054\/story.html#ixzz0u3ePbraT \" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vancouver Sun<\/span>, we see that the major players are merely changing their jackets: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><em>&#8230; The senior team, which will run the country&#8217;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&#8217;s former chief financial officer, a company said in a statement. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><em>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. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><em>Fisher moves from publisher of the National Post to president. Editor-in-chief Douglas Kelly has been appointed the new publisher of the chain&#8217;s national newspaper. Deputy editor Stephen Meurice replaces Kelly as editor-in-chief&#8230;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 10:54 AM<br \/>\nCategories: <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_bcpolitics.html\">BC Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_canadianpolitics.html\">Canadian Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_themedia.html\">The Media<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;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: &#8230; The senior team, which will run the country&#8217;s largest metropolitan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}