COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Gulf Islands Driftwood

At the Gulf Islands Driftwood, a full-time reporter vacancy is being kept unfilled due to COVID-19 and 20 to 25 per cent fewer pages are being printed in the weekly paper and 25 per cent fewer pages in the bi-monthly magazine. Two additional staff in sales and front-office were laid off.

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.