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Out With the Old, In With the Old

By David Topping

Today, the Star announced a few “key changes” “in response to consistent reader feedback,” and one of them is a change they should have never had to make in the first place: “Our major features and news profiles focused on Greater Toronto,” writes Publisher John Cruickshank, “will now be found in their own section, usually the second section of the paper. Most days, the Greater Toronto section will also contain the daily pages commemorating births, anniversaries, awards and graduations as well as obituaries and death notices.” Yes: like in days of yore, the Star once again has a proper, separate, dedicated Toronto section, with a new stated focus on painting “a dynamic portrait of the people and events that are driving our city and regions.” Cruickshank even chose an appropriately old-timey metaphor—”we will no longer hide our light under a bushel”—to describe the move back to the future.

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  • http://null Astin

    I expect this is the way most papers will go, and expect these sections to expand.
    National and international news, especially the big stuff, is immediately online. Newspapers provide this information a day late in a less convenient format. But local news, opinions, and the like, are harder to come by, so the paper can still serve a purpose here.

  • http://null PickleToes

    It’s all irrelevant, the Star isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on anyway.

  • http://null CanadianSkeezix

    It’s about time.
    For years, I have read the Globe and Star on weekdays, and added the Post to the mix on Saturday mornings. You would think that the Star would excel at local news, but on weekdays they’ve been running roughly even with the Globe, and on Saturdays they were a distant third (even the Post, with its now defunct Toronto magazine, had better local coverage).
    When the Star eliminated its separate Toronto section, things only got worse.
    The one thing I will give them credit for is up-to-the-minute local online coverage — if a big story happens in T.O., the Star’s website will usually have the story first.