Globe and Mail to fold cannabis publication into paper

The Toronto Globe and Mail will fold the content of Report on Business Cannabis Professional into its regular business coverage, reports David Yasvinski of The GrowthOp.

Yasvinski reports, “‘Cannabis Professional will be discontinued as a stand-alone product as of Feb. 1, 2020,’ Lanna Crucefex, communications manager for TheGlobe and Mail, told The GrowthOp. ‘Instead, we will be integrating all our cannabis reporting into our award-winning Report on Business coverage.’

“Subscribers to Cannabis Professional, which launched in September 2018 to cover Canada’s rapidly expanding marijuana industry, can receive a prorated refund for the remaining portion of their subscription, according to a notice on the company’s website.

“The notice, written by Ian Portsmouth, director of Cannabis Professional, explains that the move was prompted by a reorganization of the newsroom and the increasing importance of cannabis coverage to readers of the Globe’s newspaper.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.