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Toronto Star hiring 8 digital journalists at “market-based salaries”
The Toronto Star announced it will hire eight digital journalists who will be paid less than other journalists in the newsroom and is considering another round of editorial buyouts. The Star also laid off 11 full-time page editors and eight… -
Updated: Union concerned Toronto Star management is creating a two-tiered pay system
The union sent a bulletin to Toronto Star staff saying management intends to create 17 new digital positions, which would be paid “significantly less” than similar existing positions in the newsroom. … -
Is reporting on labour issues no longer a ‘sexy’ beat?
Through most of the 20th century, it was common for newsrooms to have multiple reporters assigned to the labour beat, but now only a handful exist. H.G. Watson reports.… -
Mobilizing against precarity
How media workers are organizing to address issues of precarity, and what lessons the labour movement can learn. … -
Three laid off at Brantford Expositor
Three staff at the Brantford Expositor have been laid off as part of the 200 company-wide job cuts at Sun Media. … -
New CUP/CWA Canada partnership takes “harm reduction” approach to internships
More and more young people enter the labour market not expecting to be compensated for their labour and not viewing fair treatment as their basic right. Not only does this establish an exploitative pattern for young journalists, it is bad… -
Live chat on internships: No pay, no gain?
Should interns be paid or unpaid? Join this four-member panel in a theoretical discussion: Melanie Coulson, senior editor at the Ottawa Citizen, did an unpaid internship at Chatelaine; Andrew Langille, Toronto lawyer whose research focuses on unpaid youth labour; Anne… -
Postmedia and union talks break down over contracting out printing of Vancouver Sun and The Province
Postmedia Network recently announced it will sell the Surrey property where its printing plant is located and either contract out the printing or build a new plant that would require fewer workers. The company imposed a Nov. 18 deadline for an agreement… -
Canadian Media Guild data shows 10,000 job losses in past five years
The print sector lost nearly twice that of the broadcast sector—6,000 jobs versus 3,700, according to the Canadian Media Guild's preliminary data. Jan Wong summarizes all the recent cuts, cost-saving initiatives and other measures the industry is making to stop… -
J-Source launches new Work and Labour section
Nicole Cohen, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and co-founder of Shameless magazine, will edit the section dedicated to coverage of contract negotiations, internships, outsourcing and layoffs in Canadian journalism.…
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