{{Short description|Canadian online newspaper}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Local Xpress | logo = File:Local_Xpress_logo_colour.png | logo_size = 250px | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | motto = | type = Online newspaper | format = | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = Halifax Typographical Union | president = | editor = | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = {{start date|2016|01|30}} | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = {{end date|2017|08|10}} | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = Halifax, Nova Scotia | publishing_country = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = }} '''''Local Xpress''''' was an online newspaper based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was founded in 2016 by 57 members of the Halifax Typographical Union's newsroom unit while on strike from ''The Chronicle Herald'', the city's daily newspaper.<ref name="globe19may">{{cite news|last1=Bradshaw|first1=James|title=Striking Halifax Chronicle journalists amp up parallel publication efforts|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/striking-halifax-chronicle-journalists-amp-up-parallel-publication-efforts/article30096080/|work=The Globe and Mail|date=19 May 2016}}</ref> The ''Herald'' continued to publish during the strike using strikebreakers writing anonymously.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bousquet |first=Tim |date=19 May 2016 |title=Local Xpress expands: "We're taking the Herald on head-to-head" |url=https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/journalism/local-xpress-expands-were-taking-the-herald-on-head-to-head/ |work=Halifax Examiner |access-date=5 November 2025}}</ref>
The strike began on 23 January 2016. ''Local Xpress'' was launched a week later, initially with a blog-like interface. The striking writers worked on the ''Local Xpress'' on a volunteer basis. In May 2016, as the strike dragged on, the website was revamped as a full-service online newspaper in partnership with Village Media, an Ontario digital media company. It aimed to compete with the ''Herald'', expanding to offer national and international news, event listings, columnists, weather, and other features.<ref name="cbc19may"/>
The strikers stated that if the strike was resolved, ''Local Xpress'' would be shut down.<ref name="cbc19may">{{cite news|last1=Luck|first1=Shaina|title=Local Xpress launches full-service news site to compete with Chronicle Herald|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/local-xpress-chronicle-herald-launch-1.3588917|publisher=CBC News|date=19 May 2016}}</ref> In a round of bargaining in October 2016, ''Herald'' management demanded that the strikers not only close the ''Local Xpress'', but also hand over all content produced during the strike, as well as the ''Local Xpress'' URL, to the ''Herald''.<ref name="makenever">{{cite news|last1=Kimber|first1=Stephen|author-link1=Stephen Kimber|title='Make Never,' Grant Machum and 'Graham Dennis isn't around to save you anymore'|url=https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/make-never-grant-machum-and-graham-dennis-isnt-around-to-save-you-anymore/|work=Halifax Examiner|date=21 November 2016}}</ref>
The parties reached a deal in August 2017 and the website was subsequently closed,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Cassie |date=10 August 2017 |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/chronicle-herald-deal-passed-1.4242062|title=Chronicle Herald workers ratify deal that will see layoffs and wage cuts |work=CBC News|access-date=2018-03-29|language=en-US}}</ref> although Village Media announced it would relaunch a similarly formatted community news website called ''HalifaxToday''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Boon|first1=Jacob|title=Local Xpress spins-off into HalifaxToday|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2017/09/21/local-xpress-spins-off-into-halifaxtoday|accessdate=April 17, 2018|work=The Coast|date=September 21, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==See also== * Media in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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==External links== * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809233318/https://www.localxpress.ca/ |date=August 9, 2017 |title=Official website}}
{{Newspapers of Nova Scotia}} {{Notable labour disputes in Canada}}
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