A timeline of bad news at Postmedia
The last few years have not been easy ones for Canada’s cross-country media chain. J-Source looks back on the events that have shaped the shrinking of Postmedia.
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CAJ highlights the stories laid-off Postmedia journalists told
90 people are without jobs as a result of Jan. 19’s newsroom mergers and cuts.
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Memo: Paul Godfrey on Postmedia cuts
Paul Godfrey outlines the cuts and changes at Postmedia.
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Postmedia cuts 90 jobs and merges newsrooms in Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver
Edmonton Journal’s editor-in-chief Margo Goodhand and managing editor Stephanie Coombs among cuts.
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Memo: Stephanie Coombs on leaving the Edmonton Journal
Parting words from the Journal’s managing editor after she was let go by Postmedia.
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Postmedia to accelerate and hike cost cuts
The head of Canada’s largest newspaper empire says the company is accelerating its intentions to cut costs as it continues to bleed advertising, print circulation and digital media revenue.
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Memo: Quarterly Update from Paul Godfrey
Postmedia targeting another $30 million in “cost savings” by the end of fiscal 2017.
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Memo: Ottawa Citizen Editor Andrew Potter leaves paper to join McGill
Potter will stay with the Citizen until the end of February before leaving to join McGill as the director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.