• The closure of the Star Touch app will impact 30 staff total, all who worked on Star Touch. Image courtesy of the Toronto Star.

    The Toronto Star is closing the Star Touch tablet app

    By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor The bell has tolled for the Toronto Star’s tablet app. On June 26, 2017, John Boynton, president and CEO of Torstar and publisher of the Toronto Star, announced in a newsroom memo that Star Touch will be replaced by a universal smartphone and tablet app as of Aug. 1, 2017.…