The Globe and Mail's publisher said in a town hall meeting in April that he'd like to see 60 employees take the buyouts, which represent eight per cent of the company's 770 employees. J-Source has received a list of employees from The Globe and Mail who have taken the buyout.
Gillian "Gill" Deacon will join CBC Radio One's Here and Now afternoon radio show as its new host on Sept. 2. "The CBC has played a big part in my career and as host of Here and Now I am looking forward to telling the stories that matter most to Torontonians," Deacon said in a…
Mike Hornbrook is retiring from CBC Radio News after nearly 30 years with the public broadcaster. Mike Hornbrook was the economics correspondent for CBC Radio News. "For nearly a decade, Mike has been the steady voice of expertise and reason around the often dizzying ups and downs of economic trends affecting Canadians," said CBC managing news…
Rogers is shutting down its 24-hours City News Channel, just shy of two years from its launch, and is stopping production of the English-language South Asian newscast at OMNI Telelvision. These changes will affect 2.5 per cent of the broadcaster's workforce.
Statement from Scott Moore, President of Broadcast, Rogers Media, regarding CityNews Channel and OMNI Television: “Today, we made changes to the company’s television strategy to reflect evolving viewer habits and the global structural shift in advertising. [node:ad] “Moving forward, we will focus our broadcast news resources in Toronto on 680News and CityNews on City, and…
Le CRTC a renouvelé mardi les licences accordées à Radio-Canada/CBC et ce, jusqu’en 2018. Parmi les décisions phares, le retour de la publicité à la radio fait grand bruit. Si la direction de la SRC s’en réjouit, les syndicats, soutenus par un grand nombre d’auditeurs, crient au scandale.
If Darwin was around, he would read free online news instead of a print newspaper. That's according to a commercial on a Saskatchewan radio station promoting its free website. But rather than taking insult at being called a dinosaur, the Prince Albert Daily Herald has embraced its new mascot with an ad campaign of its own.
The CBC has pulled the plug on an advertising campaign that promoted Postmedia Network paywall subscriptions, saying that the websites compete with the public broadcaster’s own websites, the Financial Post reported. Postmedia launched the advertising campaign, including television and print spots, on May 14. According to the Financial Post article, CBC’s media sales team said…
Brandie Weikle is returning to Canadian Family magazine in a new role as editor-in-chief. She was a senior editor at the magazine from 2005 to 2007 and will be starting in her new role on June 10, according to the Canadian Magazines blog. She has also worked as the editor of healthzone.ca and parentcentral .ca at…
TC Média, propriétaire du Journal de Rosemont et de nombreux hebdomadaires locaux, a décidé de couper la moitié des postes de journalistes sur l’Île de Montréal. Ceux qui sont restés voient leurs tâches dénaturées et multipliées. On pourrait penser que l’équipe de RueMasson.com est contente que TC Média lui laisse le champ libre. Mais non.