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Sui Generis: Tobacco Sponsorship Advertising and Canadian Campus Newspapers
Author(s) -
Daniel Robinson
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of communication
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.343
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1499-6642
pISSN - 0705-3657
DOI - 10.22230/cjc.2008v33n2a2010
Subject(s) - newspaper , advertising , revenue , profit (economics) , publishing , political science , business , economics , law , accounting , microeconomics
This article examines tobacco sponsorship advertising in 18 college and university newspapers in Canada from 2002 to 2004. It documents the financial value of tobacco advertising in the year before the federal ban on this form of advertising, which began in October 2003. Tobacco spending formed nearly half of these newspapers’ national advertising revenues. The paper examines advertising revenue and publishing output in the year following the ad ban. While national ad revenue fell 28% in 2003-04, this did not adversely affect newspaper operations: the newspapers published 1.4% more pages—and more issues—in 2003-04 than in the previous year. In accounting for this anomalous finding, the paper discusses the sui generis nature of campus newspapers, which embody elements of commercial and non-profit media, while remaining an under-researched and under-theorized area of communication studies. Resume : Cet article examine les publicites commanditees par l’industrie du tabac dans dix-huit journaux de colleges et d’universites au Canada entre 2002 et 2004. Il recense la valeur financiere de publicites de tabac au cours de l’annee precedant une interdiction federale de ce genre de publicite qui a debute en octobre 2003. Avant cette interdiction, les compagnies de tabac fournissaient presque la moitie du revenu annuel provenant de publicites nationales. Cet article examine en outre les revenus publicitaires et le nombres de parutions des journaux au cours de l’annee suivant l’interdiction. En 2003-2004, le revenu annuel provenant de publicites est tombe de 28%, mais cette baisse n’a pas eu d’effet negatif sur la parution des journaux : au contraire, les journaux ont publie 1,8% de pages de plus—et plus de numeros—en 2003-2004 par rapport a l’annee precedente. Pour expliquer ce resultat insolite, l’article traite de la nature singuliere de journaux collegiaux et universitaires, ceux-ci en effet ayant a la fois certaines composantes commerciales et d’autres a but non lucratif. Les journaux collegiaux et universitaires font partie d’un domaine de la communication qui demeure insuffisamment explore et theorise.

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