After 133 years of printing newspapers, La Presse will release one final hard copy edition Saturday before becoming completely digital.
The French-language daily, in business since 1884, stopped publishing a daily print edition at the end of 2015, but continued issuing its daily content on a digital tablet edition called La Presse Plus.
It continued to print a Saturday edition, but the Dec. 30 edition will be its last.
For La Presse columnist and former CJAD 800 contributor Patrick Lagacé, the print edition is nostalgic.
"I grew up reading La Presse as a teenager," he said. "It's a big part of my intellectual upbringing and my general culture."
However, Lagacé said the digital edition is thriving, with more readers than ever.
The full blown transition into digital is what Lagacé said is La Presse's way of adapting.
"Everybody is trying to find a way to survive and thrive in the digital age," he said.
But for Montreal Gazette Editor-in-Chief Lucinda Chodan, going fully digital isn't in their plans yet.
"That's not the path we're going down," she said. "Many of our readers tell us how much they enjoy having the print edition."
However, Chodan admits that printing newspapers is expensive. But if people can pay for it, they'll keep printing.
"As long as they are continuing to consume print and as long as they are continuing to pay for delivery of a print edition, we will continue to print one," Chodan said.
While La Presse is ditching newspaper, Lagacé said it's a matter of time before printing news on paper ceases to exist.
-Alyssia Rubertucci (CJAD 800)