The metamorphosis that the media world is undergoing and the unfair competition offered by the web giants to traditional media, combined with that of Radio-Canada, once once more oblige us to make a difficult but responsible decision to ensure the sustainability of the Quebec newspaper.
We are announcing today that all of the operations and equipment of our Quebec City printing plant will be sold over the next few weeks to Quebecor Media Printing.
The Journal of Quebec will therefore be printed in Mirabel, where it is already The Journal of Montreal, which will allow us to concentrate the printing of our Newspapers in one place. Our readers and subscribers can be reassured: The Journal of Quebec will continue to be printed six days a week and delivered daily.
This decision leads to the layoff of press operators and shippers. We would like to sincerely thank them for all the efforts and work accomplished during the years they have devoted to the Journal.
And Journal all in color
On the other hand, this change will also lead to new features in your Journal. In fact, Quebecor Media Printing has more modern facilities, so readers of the Quebec newspaper now have access.
New appointments dealing with what is happening in the capital, sports, shows but also in all our sections, will also appear on our pages in the coming weeks. Our team is already working on it.
You can be sure that we will continue to keep you informed every day with revelations from our Bureau of Investigation, political news from our Parliamentary Bureau, exclusive news from journalists in all our sections, as well as our Opinions pages, by far the most diverse in Quebec.
However, this decision will force us to review some of our operations, in particular our deadline, which will be slightly advanced.
As a result, we will have to adapt our coverage of events taking place in the evening. As is currently the case, these events will continue to be covered by our journalists on the web, on our journaldequebec.com, as well as in the QUB application and on our social networks. Subscribers to our electronic edition will also have access to breaking news.
Rest assured that our journalists will work hard to provide you with the best coverage of news from Quebec and Eastern Quebec.
A necessary decision
The decision to sell the operations and equipment of our printing plant on avenue Béchard was not easy to make, but it is necessary to ensure the sustainability of the Quebec newspaperwhich will celebrate its 56th anniversary in 2023.
This decision is in the same vein as that which other press groups from here and elsewhere have had to take, in recent years, in order to be able to look to the future with optimism.
This is another measure aimed at enabling us to face up to unfair competition from web giants, who monopolize too large a share of revenue in the digital world.
In Canada, this competition is all the more intense because Radio-Canada, a company subsidized by the federal state, also participates in it, with taxpayers’ money.
Merci
Once these changes are complete, The Journal of Quebec will be able to pursue its mission of providing its readers with diversified and quality information.
For a long time to come, your Journal will be there to inform and entertain you in paper format, now in full colorbut also on all its platforms, whether its electronic edition, its website or its social networks.
Dear readers, dear readers, thank you for reading us.
Dear advertisers, thank you for your loyalty.
Sebastien Menard
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
The Journal of Quebec