Postmedia Network Inc. has cut jobs since taking over the newspaper chain from Canwest Global Communications, a move Canada’s largest media union is calling “appalling” and “irresponsible.” Postmedia is undergoing a restructuring process, company spokeswoman Phyllise Gelfand confirmed Thursday without providing the exact number of layoffs.
Newspaper and TV newsroom mergers could become the next big thing as profit-pressed publishers and broadcasters seek to cut costs and strengthen their digital presence.
BBC staff in the unions Bectu, Unite and the National Union of Journalists have voted by more than 90% in favour of strike action over proposed changes to the corporations’s pension scheme.
Sun-Times Media Wednesday announced the launch of ToDrive.com, which it is billing as the Chicago area’s first hyperlocal automotive site. “There is nothing like ToDrive.com in the Chicago marketplace that is specific to Chicago dealers and Chicago auto buyers,” Sun-Times Media President and COO Rick Surkamer said in a statement.
While Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers laid off journalists and fought their way through a global advertising recession, the Australian-born media mogul endured a modest degree of personal belt-tightening – his take-home pay dropped by 6% to $16.8m, or £10.9m.
The Mormon Church-owned daily is reducing its workforce by 43%, shedding 57 full-time and 28 part-time employees. “Part of this industry leadership requires the Deseret News to adapt its cost structure to the new realities of the print publication and refocus efforts on the quality of its product,” the newspaper’s announcement said.
Postmedia Network Inc. unveiled its new brand logo today ahead of the new publishing company’s advertising campaign targeting national advertisers. The logo, developed by agency Rethink Toronto, is the company’s name with a forward slash at the end and gradual left-to-right colour shift from darker to lighter.
The bankruptcy sale of Philadelphia’s two major newspapers has been delayed two weeks as creditors poised to take over try to hammer out labor contracts with several Teamsters units.
We have the very real and menacing prospect of a major national media chain being bulldozed into a blatant propaganda tool by and for the party in power.
Conrad Black’s ongoing legal fight in the United States has attracted considerable attention in Canada, yet there is a side courtroom battle at home over alleged defamatory content on the Internet that merits closer attention.
Today letters went out to employees at the Victoria Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun and The Province announcing buyouts.
Over the past week Postmedia has been cutting jobs at its newspapers across …
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