Running Canadian journalism cuts thread

Doyle still in Kelowna these days? Great guy.

 

Sounds like more cuts are coming in Guelph... and then there's this tidbit from the TorSun blog...

To summarize, an anonymous poster there said all layout for the entire CHAIN will be done in Barrie, Ont.

 

Confirmed. Another guy who I went to school with, canned in Guelph. Unreal.

 

In Barrie? Where repeated production fuck-ups result in the paper being delivered by the reporters and editors?

http://torontosunfamily.blogspot.com/2009/03/barrie-duties.html

But I can see it happening eventually, if not immediately. In my part of Ontario, Osprey had been funnelling a lot of stuff to Barrie for years even prior to the Quebecor takeover. It's been thought for a while that regional pagination, at least, was the next step.

 

All rims will be kaput? WTF?

 

Have heard Nanton and Vulcan are among those to fold next week.

 

Brace thyselves, Bellvillians.

http://torontosunfamily.blogspot.com/2009/03/turbulent-09.html

Anonymous tips arriving at TSF indicate there is much more turbulence scheduled for Sun Media newspapers this year.

From one of the former Osprey newspapers losing its entire sports department, to an entire payroll office at another newspaper scheduled to be pink slipped next week.

Belleville's Mix 97 is reporting today sources say the Belleville Intelligencer's distribution centre on Hanna Court will see up to 30 jobs cut.

Other e-mails tell of layoffs here and there across the chain, recently and pending.

While TSF is not a blog of record, any and all Sun Media changes, including names of the casualties, will be noted here when confirmed.

 

Holy crap. I wonder which former Osprey paper it is that's losing its sports department?

 

I thought it was Sarnia that people said lost its sports department or most of it.

I also had heard the Intelligencer cut their newsroom of eight nearly in half, but no confirmation yet. The Barrie desk talk seems to have surfaced in connection with them as well.

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090325.wcbc0325/BNStory/National/home.


The plan is to cut about 400 jobs at the CBC, about 330 at Radio-Canada and another 70 corporate positions. Sources who listened to the call said the layoffs are to begin in mid-May at the earliest, after management assesses how many voluntary retirements it can secure.

The best part:

"Executive salaries are being frozen at the CBC, but Mr. Lacroix maintained during the call that management bonuses would only be reduced by half — not eliminated — for the next fiscal year."

Natch.

 

How in the world did management ever figure bonuses were a good idea when people have to lose their jobs?

Assholes.

 

That needs to come up in Parliament. The CBC is a Crown corporation. How can it justify any bonuses at all? The country deserves an explanation.