Mark Palmer

CP Rewired

Can a seventy-six-year-old news service make itself relevant to the newspapers of the nineties? Should it even try?

“If CP didn’t exist, we’d have to create it.” That’s the traditional view of fans of Canadian Press, Canada’s only national news-exchange cooperative. After 76 years in business, CP can certainly be called an institution in Canadian journalism. But in the newspaper world of the nineties, it’s threatening to become a misfit. CP is a […]