Moncton News Offers Convenient One Stop Newsstand.

Think of Know Moncton’s News Today feature page as a virtual newsstand, highlighting the best of the local news coverage we can find on the web and putting it in one convenient location.

You may add your personal comments to a story selection, or daily calendar event or business listing to make your voice heard. Got a community news posting, add it by clicking on My Moncton News .

To Know Moncton, either as a resident or a visitor, helps you keep up with all the local news sources, including personal posts on Twitter and by local bloggers, which is group here on one page to allow you to get more enjoyment out of living in Metro Moncton today.

Each news article or commentary is clearly and quickly linked to its source so you can learn more about what is happening in our community and about those media outlets providing news coverage of Moncton. We also add individuals who mention activities and community life in Moncton as well in their Blogs or Tweets.

LocalintheKnow’s editors group everything on one quick read news page as they do for shopping flyers, movie listings, and our comprehensive listing of community events and visitor attractions for Moncton, and communities across all of New Brunswick. This is for your browsing convenience so you can pick which story and news source you want to read at any given moment during the day.

Moncton News Today news events also highlights two of the most promising local event commentators in our community, which is Newschaser.ca, who has in a short period of time become an international video sensation with Ray Richard’s You-Are-There-Now, visual video reports.

Ray-the-Newschaser includes a short description of community level coverage that he writes and publishes to the World through his uTube postings, which he also shares freely with local TV media outlets, as well on his new media blog, which Know Moncton sponsors. LocalintheKnow is proud to recognize Ray Richard as a Local in the Know.

We salute Ray’s ingenuity and feature him on the KnowMoncton home page, as well now on the Moncton news snippets feature, as he represents the best in the new field of citizen-contributed-journalism. Newschaser R. Richard’s commitment to his community, often arriving before the first emergency responders do, is the stuff great community news organizations were once made of, and will be again in the future. 

Add your comment to Newschaser’s home video page and visit often.

We also want to welcome and highlight provincial newspaper columnist, economic development/business research consultant, and New Brunswick’s preeminent blogging commentator and now Twitter digerati poster for all things to do with wealth building in our community, DavidWCampbell.com and his blog, It’s the Economy Stupid. 

David has been writing provocative and thoughtful postings on issues related to growing the economy and wealth generation in New Brunswick, and Atlantic Canada , and publishing with LocalintheKnow for over four years now. Blogger D Campbell anchors our brace of the best bloggers leading community commentary in New Brunswick, which are featured and highlighted on Local Perspectives.

If it is important to be thinking about and to be concerned about in the business of being in local business, or a ratepayer with a house mortgage on the personal investment line, then David’s insightful and at times whimsical coverage of serious trends in demographic and financial shifts in our community is your most important read of the day.

In months to come, D. Campbell’s personal commitment to building a better New Brunswick, within a vibrant economic Atlantic Canada, will be much more visible. It’s the Economy Stupid encourages the development of a vibrant network of self sustaining and growing economic development communities in this province and region and will be the featured post on a new Beta version site of KnowAtlantic.com .

D Campbell’s daily blog commentary and Tweets will help to not only anchor Moncton News Today, but will also be the top featured news commentator on the new Know Atlantic Can-Do Business view of, what it will mean to be a business in this place, in the future.

For everyday local news coverage. Moncton News Today brings together the four most important corporate voices in local news coverage. CBC Radio-TV, the Globe and Mail Atlantic Edition, the Moncton Times & Transcript and goliath Rogers’ News Radio 91.5 as the dominant voices that control through their coverage much of the perception we have of our community life in Moncton.

Over time, these large corporate media voices will be supplemented with more community-based, citizen contributed journalism and local thought leaders who have a news, or issue commentary contribution, to add more balance and citizen based, eco-diversity of opinions to enhance our community growth and self-awareness.

First and foremost is the Moncton’s CBC News and Television coverage of New Brunswick, which is focused on news and community events across southern New Brunswick, and Metro Moncton communities.

CBC Moncton, still exists even after recent government budget cutbacks and offers an entertaining and informative level of local programming all through the day. For more detailed information, check out their LocalintheKnow listing for CBC Moncton Radio-TV , with a direct link to their web profile, programming schedule and web site link.

LocalintheKnow editors chose to include the Bell-Globe Media’s Globe and Mail newspaper online, because on frequent occasions the Grey Lady of Toronto with its Atlantic region’s satellite edition printed in Halifax, carries a relevant story or feature article of interest to readers in Greater Moncton, which is dedicated coverage from their Atlantic news bureau.

As Canada’s effective national voice newspaper, The Globe and Mail is a must read for keeping up on the larger community of Canada, and how decisions made somewhere else are going to play out in Moncton’s local economy.

LocalintheKnow is featuring the Times & Transcript snippets of stories that are currently being featured on their central web site Canada East, which is a full service portal serving all the newspaper media in New Brunswick, and increasingly publishing in both languages, effectively. In addition, we highlight their editorial and community commentary for its importance in developing more awareness of the issues that are currently top of mind in Moncton.

As any local resident understands and knows the Times & Transcript along with the youth voice, street savvy Here tabloid, and the middle class family values featured in This Week publications, are part of a massive presence in New Brunswick media, corporately owned by the local commercial family enterprise, affectionately referred to as “the Irving's”.

Like any giant in a small market pond, everyone loves to complain about and knock the corporate concentration of the Irving owned Brunswick News ( the commercial business name for the family’s diverse media holdings ), network of community newspapers, which cover every household in the tiny New Brunswick marketplace.

However, and in their favor, one only has to go to any second tier Ontario city to see how truly bad a corporate owned, community served newspaper managed from a distant business office can truly be, in order to understand the commitment that the Irving media represent to New Brunswick. Love’em, hate, compete against them, the fact is the Irving's like this province for business and community reasons and run a media group that is equal to anything available in most markets in Canada.

New Brunswick is in fact, one of the very few remaining newspaper and media markets where the owners, corporate or otherwise actually reside in the communities they serve. As Martha Stewart intones, “ this is a good thing”.
LocalintheKnow promotes community business leadership from whatever the source and encourages anyone living or visiting the Moncton area, and regions of New Brunswick to buy, read and support the local print media in their area. Because the alternative in the rest of Canada and many parts of the US, are much worse in terms of covering and caring about the community in which they give service.

We chose to highlight the Irving press accounts because they are the most comprehensive voice and coverage in the Province. When you click on the brand logos, which we highlight and promote, they will lead you to how you can subscribe and support this valuable and important local community media in New Brunswick.

LocalintheKnow is committed to building better communities by making everything in the community easier to participate in, and this includes adding more voices to the mix and finding more creative ways to bring these voices to the attention of the community at large.

As more interactive and commentary contributions software evolves such as Twitter and thought leader blogging posts, we will publish those who seek to lead our community’s perception of itself as the years evolve.

From the corporation level view of the government-public media and the Irving families, as well as those strident media voices coming from corporations who operate over a dozen radio entertainment stations in our local communities, we will sift through looking for the nuggets of information that help us to make better decisions about our future.

Over time, we are also going to find and feature more independent and individual voices to help explain this phenomena called community and economic development strategies that allow us to live in one of the finest, most stable and visually arresting geographies in the world, www enabled or not.

The challenge for our community of Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John, Bathurst and the Miramichi, among the many towns and villages we will try to give an alternative voice and marketplace to, is not what we are doing today to make wealth happen for everyone, but more importantly what is being developed and invested in to create the job opportunities for tomorrow.

The real challenge facing New Brunswick is how do we better manage the future of our communities?  Who are the voices of insight and reason, whether their salaries are paid by a large corporate business entity, or by a smaller voice seeking an audience of like minded citizens, committed to finding a common and sustaining financial path forward for what ever is next ?

As LocalintheKnow  and its Know-Your-Community network grows, we will commission some of New Brunswick’s finest and thoughtful writers to go behind the snippets and the headlines and explain our community’s economic and social issues to one another. Writers like David Campbell, Alec Bruce, Bill Belliveau, Heather Ferguson’s celebration of Farmer’s Markets, and Harold Jarche pensive prose from Sackville. 

We hope to find ways to create and grow all our communities by reminding visitors to our sites of what there is that is important to know today, in order to live a better more fulfilling community life, and to be more effective as a resident, or a welcome visitor.

However, the long term publishing mission of LocalintheKnow is to not only aggregate what is happening today, but to celebrate and develop those who can better explain what it means to live here, and what steps we must take in order to build a better Moncton, Dieppe, Shediac, Bouctouche, Sackville, or Riverview, in this place we call home.

That is why we say in our opening, “we live local and think local”.

Here’s how you can join with us, or support our community mission with your business advertising support.

David Jonah
Publisher . LocalintheKnow Publishing Inc.

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