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    July 15, 2018
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    #239 Last Chance For Newspapers: Inside La Presse
    The newspaper business is in rapid decline. Can non-profit status save newspapers in Canada?
    Ellen Payne Smith
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    Kevin Sexton
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    Jesse Brown
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    Jesse joins Pierre-Elliot Levasseur, the President of La Presse in Montréal and speaks to him about their new non-profit structure. Is this the future for news media in Canada? Or is it simply a neat exit strategy for Power Corporation, the Desmarais owned holding-company that severed ties with the newspaper business?

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