COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Estevan Mercury

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The print editions of Estevan Mercury and Southeast Lifestyles temporarily merged on April 22, 2020 due to the impacts of COVID-19. The mastheads in the e-editions of the paper reflect that one editorial and two sales jobs were eliminated by June 2020.

Updated July 29, 2022:

The temporary merger of the Estevan Mercury and Southeast Lifestyles newspapers has been made permanent. They published using a shared masthead temporarily from April 22, 2020 through Dec. 23, 2020, and merged into one publication known as Estevan Mercury beginning with the Jan. 13, 2021 edition.

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 Toronto Metropolitan 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.