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May 25, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Up to 180 staffers at CBC (English) will be handed lay off notices starting next week, the public broadcaster has announced. These layoffs are a part...
May 20, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
In "Passages to India", a feature article for the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Sarah Bridge examined the practice of outsourcing of newspaper copy-editing to India.
Bridge talked about what she discovered while writing the article in an interview with Andy Barrie on Metro Morning, CBCs Southern Ontario morning radio program.
Listen to the interview.
Bridge talked about what she discovered while writing the article in an interview with Andy Barrie on Metro Morning, CBCs Southern Ontario morning radio program.
Listen to the interview.
May 11, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
The Canadian Writers' Group, an agency for freelance magazine writers, has launched with a group of 50 writers on board. The agency, run by former Toro editor-in-chief Derek Finkle, has been...
May 05, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
An $11 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over compensation for electronic reproduction of freelancers' work. CTVglobemedia Inc., owner of The Globe and Mail,
Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd. and The Gale Group Inc. have agreed to pay
$11 million to settle the class action lawsuit, which was launched 13
years ago by Heather Robertson. The companies made no admission...
Apr 27, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Chris Powell, a former staffer at Rogers Publishing, has written a guest column for Masthead Online about his new status as an unemployed journalist in Canada. Powell writes...
Apr 22, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Masthead Online is reporting job cuts at Rogers' publishing division. Masthead's tally of cuts...
Apr 15, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
The Electronic Rights Defence Committee (ERDC) has announced that a
group of freelance writers won authorization from the Quebec Superior
Court to pursue a class action law suit against the Montreal Gazette,
Canwest and other related companies for republishing freelance articles
in the Infomart database without compensation to the writers. The ERDC...
Apr 07, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
In an effort to trim costs, the Canadian Press is cutting cutting 25 jobs, The Globe and Mail reports. The national wire service...
Apr 01, 2009
- Posted by Robert
Washburn
"Three union editors at Sun Media's Brantford Expositor were notified today they will be laid off as of May 1, says a TSF source."
It appears a regional pagination centre is being created.
It appears a regional pagination centre is being created.
Mar 19, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
CBC president Hubert Lacroix announced that the broadcaster will put a
freeze on executives salaries and cut their bonuses in half...
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