By The Canadian Press The roles of president and CEO of Torstar Corp. and publisher of the Toronto Star will be amalgamated into one position, the company said Wednesday as it announced David Holland would retire this fall. Holland is retiring after 30 years with the company, including seven years as president and CEO of…
Star News Publishing triples in size with purchase of 13 newspapers from Transcontinental.
15 layoffs reported at Vice’s U.S. office as company restructures.
The founder of The Calgarian wants to raise $12,000 by Jun. 5 to start reporting by September.
Torstar recorded extra expenses related to its transition towards more digital media and revenue fell at its traditional newspaper businesses.
“We have a very strong majority of staff in the editorial and several other departments:” CMG president.
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor A frequent lament among Canadian journalists is that we don’t have the same vibrant media culture as our American neighbours. There is no Canadian ProPublica, Knight Foundation, Vox, Mic, Poynter, The Intercept—we could go on. Point being, our media landscape is smaller and is controlled by very few companies. In…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Metro Toronto’s newsroom is now a little smaller. Layoffs of seven unionized editorial staff members were announced on Mar. 8, Bob Hepburn, the director of community relations and communications for the Star Media Group, confirmed to J-Source. Seven of those were in editorial roles—five copy editors, one photo editor and…
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Megan Devlin Eric Plummer, editor of the Alberni Valley Times, remembers the day last September when two representatives from Black Press told him his paper was closing. “They came in, I think it was like 4:00 or 4:30,” he said. “I don’t think that we’d…
Torstar Corp. is reporting a $234.5-million loss for the fourth quarter, mostly as a result of writing down the value of its newspaper businesses.