It’s a sad but necessary sign of the times when the line between advertisement and editorial content starts to blur. A recent front page splash of the Atlantic website features a story written by an IBM employee about cloud computing — a story that IBM paid the Atlantic to publish. Of course advertorials...

Canadian newspapers are following in the footsteps of many of their international counterparts. The three major newspapers in Canada, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post, have or are planning to put up paywalls on their digital content. From a business point of view, the paywalls...