Bell Media empties CJAD newsroom
Bell Media has just gutted the CJAD newsroom, including, sadly, Shuyee Lee, whom I’ve never met, but whom I respected for her diligent coverage of local news. CJAD will simply reuse material from CTV, but even CTV won’t have a permanent reporter at the National Assembly any more. Steve Faguy has the details on his blog.
Raymond Lutz 21:31 on 2021-02-01 Permalink
Who needs newsrooms and reporters when everybody is now a “content creator”? To stay informed I just take a look at my FB page, Youtube front page or Meteomedia to know what is trending, simple.
mare 01:32 on 2021-02-02 Permalink
#BellStopTalking
Meezly 10:44 on 2021-02-02 Permalink
I hope there is still work for good journalists out there.
Timing is interesting for Bell Media who’s getting blasted by TekSavvy and MPs this week for taking $122 m from the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy during the pandemic while STILL boosting dividend payouts to shareholders and laying off salaried employees, which they weren’t supposed to do.
AND despite posting strong financial results, Bell also cut rural network investment to the inordinate number of customer complaints it receives, among other things.
It’s great they are taking heat, but do the feds have the power to do anything about this monopoly’s greedy business practices and misspending gov’t subsidies?