The memory of award-winning Winnipeg Free Press columnist Lindor Reynolds will be preserved through a new bursary at the University of Winnipeg. The newspaper worked with the UWinnipeg Foundation to establish the Lindor Reynolds Youth-in-Care Tuition Waiver Bursary, a...
Longtime Winnipeg Free Press columnist Lindor Reynolds has died after a 15-month battle with brain cancer. Reynolds passed away Thursday evening at Riverview Health Centre. She was 56. Free Press editor Paul Samyn delivered the news Friday morning via Twitter....
The province's largest newsroom is a little smaller after the Winnipeg Free Press laid off seven of its staff on Tuesday. Five reporters, an online editor and a copy editor were let go in the layoffs, which were first made public on Twitter late this afternoon. "Well,...
The Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Public Relations Society will delve into what makes the Winnipeg Free Press News Café a success on Wednesday. During a luncheon at the Fort Garry Hotel, the Free Press' John White, Deputy Editor Online, will talk about the...
Tania Kohut returned to the Winnipeg Free Press on Monday, reassuming her role as video host for the newspaper's web presence. Tania will be fulfilling duties out of the yet-to-open Winnipeg Free Press News Café on McDermot Avenue. Before leaving at the end of...
Winnipeg motorists were flanked down Wednesday morning during a campaign to raise funds for local adult literacy programs. Staff at the Free Press were trading special orange copies of the paper for donations to the Raise-a-Reader campaign. Twenty-seven other...
A new radio show put on by the Winnipeg Free Press will debut later today on 92.9 KICK-FM from Red River College's downtown campus. "Stop the Presses" is a weekly show from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Wednesday that looks at the biggest news stories of the week, featuring...
Winnipeg singer-songwriter Sierra Noble is speaking out on her Twitter page after an article in Tuesday's Winnipeg Free Press claimed Noble and her family are being sued. The lawsuit alleges Noble's family never repaid loans in the sum of $55,800 to the estate of a...
During Thursday night's media scrum with Winnipeg Blue Bombers chairman Ken Hildahl regarding that whole firing situation, a coincidental on-screen ad appeared on the Free Press' live stream. The advertisement for personal background checks -- supplied by Google --...
Here's how newspapers can make more money -- the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle -- for those unfamiliar -- is a hand-held wireless device from Amazon that made its debut in Canada on Tuesday. The device has been popular in the U.S. for a few years now and allows bookworms...
The new tabloid version of Sunday's Winnipeg Free Press -- known as "On7" -- is not a free paper. That's why staffers were scratching their heads when we informed them that it was being given away for nothing in some locations throughout the city. But they were just...
It didn't stay up for long, but Thursday afternoon a story running on the CBC News website had the Winnipeg Free Press included in a list of Canwest-owned newspapers. The article also mentioned something called the Edmonton Free Press, which no one seems to have heard...
