COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Continental Newspapers (Kelowna Daily Courier and Penticton Herald)

Thirteen staff in press, advertising and editorial were laid off at Continental Newspapers’ Kelowna Daily Courier and Penticton Herald between March 20 and April 2, 2020, says the union.

Updated Oct. 22: All of those layoffs are now permanent, following the Aug. 31 closure of the Kelowna press hall, which also resulted in the layoffs of 6 press workers and 24 mailers/inserters.

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.