COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Postmedia
In May, Postmedia announced 44 permanent layoffs that would affect staff at publications across the country.
After a voluntary buyout negotiation process as permitted by papers’ collective agreements, the final departures — which total 38 — are as follows:
Unifor
Windsor Star: 9 production layoffs, 1 in newsroom
Winnipeg Sun: 4 production layoffs
London Free Press: 1 voluntary layoff
Brantford Expositor: 1 voluntary layoff
Chatham Daily News: 1 layoff
Simcoe Reformer: 1 voluntary layoff
Belleville Intelligencer: 1 voluntary layoff
Toronto Sun: 4 voluntary layoffs
Vancouver Sun and Province: 4 voluntary layoffs
CWA Canada
Windsor Star: 5 production layoffs
Montreal Gazette: 2 non-newsroom layoffs
Ottawa Citizen: 2 voluntary layoffs
Kingston Whig-Standard: 2 layoffs
Updated March 11, 2021:
Postmedia notified Unifor Local 2000 on Nov. 19, 2020 that it would be reducing salary expenses by 15 percent at the Vancouver Sun and the Province newspapers. The voluntary buyout process resulted in the departure of 10 employees: 6 from editorial, 2 from advertising, 1 from business and 1 from IT.
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.
