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15 Aug

Updated: CTV cuts W5 episodes and staff

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Bell Media building 1_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Matt Meuse</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>CTV’s flagship newsmagazine show <em>W5</em> is the latest to face cuts after a sharp decline in advertising.</p><p>CTV has cut seven contract positions at the show and will slash production of its upcoming season by up to 40 per cent.</p>

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13 Aug

CBC lays off veteran sportscasters Steve Armitage and Mark Lee

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Steve Armitage.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Mark Lee_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Laura Kane, for The Canadian Press</strong></p><p>Veteran sportscasters Steve Armitage and Mark Lee are the latest high-profile casualties of budget cuts at the CBC.</p>

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23 Jul

Why are we journalists so wussy and disorganized?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/General Newsroom_3.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Matt Meuse</em></p><p><strong>By Mary Agnes Welch</strong></p><p>Why are we so wussy and disorganized?</p>

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18 Jun

Canadian Media Guild details where cuts at CBC will happen

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CBC Edmonton_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Alex Midgal</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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16 Jun

Toronto Star, union compromise on digital hires

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Toronto Star newsroom_1.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Michelle-Andrea Girouard<strong> </strong></em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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16 Jun

Union bulletin on Toronto Star digital hires

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"> </p><p>Read the union bulletin on <em>Toronto Star</em>'s digital hires:</p>

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11 Jun

Opinion: If a media union can’t make endorsements, then editorial boards shouldn’t either

<p><strong>By</strong> <strong><span style="font-size: 10px;">Ishmael N. Daro</span></strong></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7YFmadIO7MM" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Video courtesy of Unifor</em></p><p>The union representing thousands of journalists in Ontario caused a shitstorm Monday when it asked its 2,600 members to consider the anti-labour policies a Progressive Conservative government led by Tim Hudak might enact and to vote accordingly.</p>

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11 Jun

Tim Harper: Collision between union rights and journalistic independence

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Tim Harper_1.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Tim Harper, national affairs columnist for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>There is no doubt the union that represents me certainly put one on the tee for Conservatives everywhere.</p>

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11 Jun

Union memo: Globe wants editorial staff to produce “branded content”

<div><em>Here's a memo obtained by J-Source on the latest bargaining talks between The Globe and Mail management and the union: </em></div><div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=49b55b7272&view=att&th=1468667190e14104&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=8bfa71791dbdc329_0.1&zw&atsh=1" style="font-size: 10px;" type="image/jpg" /></div><p align="center"><strong>Company wants Editorial staff to produce “branded content"</strong></p>

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9 Jun

Organizing precarious workers: Unions think sector-wide to help freelancers

<p><strong>By H. G. Watson</strong></p><p>At a downtown Toronto hotel in late April, a mixed group of about 50 students and 20-something's are mixing with each other in a small conference room, trading Twitter handles and media industry war stories.</p><p>They are here to hear canada.com data journalist William Wolfe-Wylie, Torontoist writer Desmond Cole and freelance animator Sagan Yee discuss the intersection of the digital world and storytelling -- though the free drink tickets probably helped too.</p>

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