Grieving my newspaper babies – By Mansoor Ladha

Friday the 13th indeed proved ominous. Last week, I received a phone call that a newspaper I had published for 25 years, had printed its last edition. Splashed on almost half of its front page in big, bold letters, the headline delivered the grim news: “Sorry, We’re CLOSED!”

The two suburban weeklies on the outskirts of Edmonton, the Morinville Mirror and the Redwater Tribune, which I had purchased as one-year-old “babies” and nurtured into maturity, attractive enough to be bought by Sun Media, Canada’s second-largest publishing group, had suddenly folded.

Now, my labour of sweat, hope and love has died –another victim of the current global economic recession.

Read at Calgary Herald