Saskatchewan biz news site launches

AllSaskatchewan.com, a business news site covering the Canadian province, has launched.

Alex MacPherson, a Saskatchewan business journalist, leads a team that includes Peter Lozinski, also in Saskatoon and Evan Radford and Nathan Meyer in Regina.

The online publication will follow the subscription model successfully established in Atlantic Canada back in 2001. AllSaskatchewan is available at an introductory monthly rate of $15, after which the regular rate enables up to three subscribers to sign in for $39 per month.

Thirty journalists at sister titles allNovaScotia, allNewfoundlandLabrador and allNewBrunswick are now the source of business, professional and government information for nearly 14,000 paid subscribers across the region.

“We’re convinced there is a real appetite for the quality and quantity of local business news we will be providing,” said MacPherson in a statement.

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.