Acro bytes by Kurt Foss

Newspaper circulation in the U.S. continues to decline, and increasingly fewer American cities offer competing daily newspapers. But in Canada, as the Ottawa Business Journal reports, the newspaper wars among the three local dailies in the country’s capital city have been reignited.

The latest volley came from the Ottawa Citizen, a morning newspaper which yesterday launched “RushHour,” a free-to-download, 12-page PDF edition published as an “afternoon news update and evening entertainment guide” from Monday to Friday. The Citizen promotes the ad-supported RushHour as follows: “Read it on the screen in full colour, or print it, roll it up and take it with you on the trip home.”

And for its ink-addicted readers, there will also be a free print version available at 120 Ottawa locations, the newspaper says.

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