Newspaper launches new digital news channel

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Free Press, one of Canada’s oldest newspapers, and Manitoba’s largest daily, has broken new ground with the launch on Tuesday of its new digital (online) television channel.Visitors to the Free Press web site can now go to WFPtv to see four-minute live stories on life-branded content.“We are pleased that we are able to show – with the launch of WFPtv – that we can be a multimedia news company,” said Bruce Leslie, vice-president of marketing at the Free Press. Leslie reports that Free Press management began planning the new service early in the fall. “We began...