COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Sing Tao Newspapers
Thirty four staff (12 unionized) are being laid off at Sing Tao (both Toronto and Vancouver), which represents a 15 per cent staffing cut across editorial, sales, admin and production. There will also be a 15 per cent executive pay cut. Sing Tao, which announced the changes April 13, is also closing its free weekly paper. Layoffs are expected to go into effect in June, says the union.
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.
