COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Torstar community papers

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Torstar announced April 16 it was closing three Toronto community newspapers: Beach-East York Neighbourhood Voice; Bloor West-Parkdale Neighbourhood Voice; and York-City Centre Neighbourhood Voice. A spokesperson says that no layoffs are associated with the closures due to the centralization of operations.

This post is part of the COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada, a joint initiative of J-Source, the Local News Research Project at Ryerson University and the Canadian Association of Journalists. The map will be regularly updated. If you have any additional information about known changes or have knowledge of a new impact, please contact us at info@j-source.ca or fill in details using the form COVID-19: Impacts on media in Canada.