Thursday 28 October 2010

New paper today

It is Day 643 of the Journal de Montreal lockout.

The Montreal Gazette says the day will be remembered as the launch date of a union-backed free newspaper, Rue Frontenac, with 48 pages and a press run of 75,000.

The 253 locked out employees have been represented by a website of the same name since the lockout began in January of 2009.

The Gazette says the free French-language tabloid will be distributed weekly from 1,4000 locations.

A print edition - Montreal's answer to the free MediaMatin weekday tabloid launched immediately after Journal de Quebec's lockout/strike in 2007 - was long overdue.

CTV Montreal has a photo of the newspaper.

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