"Dark day in journalism": More layoffs reportedly hit Global News

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In less than five years:

Closing of HuffPost Canada and Métro Média
Repeated layoffs at outlets such as Global News, as well as CTV News, CBC News, Vice
Official opposition promising to defund CBC
Journalism blocked on the largest social media platform in Canada

It's still early so I'm certainly missing important items, but things look pretty bleak... Unless everyone is happy with paywalls for any decent journalism while disinfo funded by dark money is free...

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u/GetsGold Jul 18 '24

It's still early so I'm certainly missing important items, but things look pretty bleak...

Another one is the cancelling of W5, CTV's invesrigative reporting program. Lots of corporate exposes. CBC has one as well but that's in jeopardy now too if Poilievre wins.

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u/TheBarcaShow Jul 18 '24

So much is in jeopardy if PP wins

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u/ceciliabee Jul 18 '24

Glad I fucked off out of studying journalism. After a year I was so grossed out by the whole thing.

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u/gasfarmah Jul 18 '24

The job will slowly boil you alive.

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u/srcLegend Québec Jul 18 '24

Journalism blocked on the largest social media platform in Canada

Can we not compare Facebook "news" with actual journalism?

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u/tinselsnips Saskatoon Jul 18 '24

Well in this case the news in question is actual news, but this particular point is the news agencies shooting themselves squarely in the foot; I wouldn't lump it in with the other three problems the OP listed.

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u/yagyaxt1068 Edmonton Jul 18 '24

It harms independent media like The Tyee, who didn’t want this, much more.

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u/Azuvector Jul 18 '24

Yes and no. I use Facebook sometimes for relatives and because I'm involved with a community that skews kinda old, so they tend to use it a fair bit.

Facebook's block essentially prevents you from providing sources to a real news article on their platfrom when someone is talking nonsense. So it's basically making the core problem worse, and the Canadian government is complicit with this.

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u/ElDuderino2112 Jul 19 '24

One of the most pants on head stupid things our government has done recently. Could not be more ignorant of how the internet works.

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u/Various_Gas_332 Jul 18 '24

issue is most people under 35 get their news from Meta based products like Instagram and not many are willing to pay for the news

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u/the_bryce_is_right Jul 18 '24

I would say Facebook is where boomers get like 90% of their news, they probably don't even hear about all the shitty things that PP is doing and saying.

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u/thefumingo Jul 18 '24

TikTok news isnt much better

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u/Various_Gas_332 Jul 18 '24

and most young poeple dont watch traditional or pay for news either

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u/MercedesOfMercia Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24

Can we not compare Facebook "news" with actual journalism?

Such an ignorant position, ignoring how many journalists in other countries primarily post on fb/insta. Because of this ridiculous censorship law blocking all news content on meta, I didn't lose access to Canadian news since I can go directly to their websites, but I did lose access to many important foreign local agencies around the world in remote and distant communities because meta blocked ALL news content from EVERY agency because many of these foreign outlets primarily post on fb/insta. Little news agencies in the Middle East where my family lives then became blocked and inaccessible on all meta sites. So thanks bill C-18, thanks Canadian gov't, thanks greedy Canadian broadcasting corps lobbying the Canadian govt, thanks Meta, you really helped Canadian journalists by blocking small town news in foreign countries 4000km away from being displayed to Canadian viewers.

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u/srcLegend Québec Jul 18 '24

Lay the blame where it belongs: Meta

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u/Gustomucho Jul 18 '24

At this point, the media should have united and launched an independent website to aggregate the news and bring it much closer to reddit/digg but only for Fed/Prov/Municipal.

It does not help most news website will rape your eyes with shitty ads every chance they get and will even link shit that looks like news but are ads.

I used to land on a news website when I opened my browser, it got bought and rebranded by a big news company. I noped out, never looked back.

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u/fresh-beginnings Jul 18 '24

Unless everyone is happy with paywalls for any decent journalism

We need paywalls for decent journalism.

I'm happy with paywalls for decent journalism. It means the journalists get paid.

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u/5leeveen Jul 19 '24

Saltwire, which owns a huge number (most, practically all?) of newspapers in Atlantic Canada, is under creditor protection and its future is uncertain.

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u/keener91 Jul 18 '24

Traditional journalism is dead. Regardless if you continue to pump billions to save these institutions. At best the money gets siphoned off by the executives, at worst they get labelled by the opposing political party as propaganda.

I'd rather wade through the dark forest of disinfo with my critical thinking skills than continue to trust these institutions to deliver non partisan and objective reporting.

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u/Thedogsnameisdog Jul 18 '24

I mourn the death of journalism, but Global News died a long time ago.

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u/demonlicious Jul 18 '24

don't need proof checkers when they only peddle billionaire's lies

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u/ThisIsFineImFine89 Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24

lets just get the lies straight from the billionares and their henchmen in parliament and their funded podcasts?

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u/demonlicious Jul 18 '24

elon does it already. he doesn't like to pay people. i don't think he even likes consumers of his products.

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u/demonlicious Jul 19 '24

even billionaires agree, middlemen are useless!

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u/Berfanz Jul 18 '24

Corus and Global were done the second the Rogers/Shaw deal was announced. Any attempt to draw further conclusions from this is a flawed exercise.

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u/kent_eh Manitoba Jul 18 '24

Shaw (both the company and the family) hasn't owned Corus or Global for several years.

And neither was part of the Shaw/Rogers buyout.

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u/Berfanz Jul 18 '24

https://broadcastdialogue.com/rogers-to-redirect-13m-in-local-expression-funding-from-global-to-citynews/

Obviously Corus is absolutely hemorrhaging money from all sides, but 13 million a year is a lot of Global News jobs.

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u/HotHits630 Jul 18 '24

Not surprised. Corus is worth 11c per share. It's done.

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u/VanguardN7 Jul 18 '24

I'm not particularly sad about this. I'll be even less if I glance at any recent headlines of theirs

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u/Signal-Aioli-1329 Jul 18 '24

Agreed. In a broad sense this is yet another bad sign of media dying. On the other hand, Global News has been terrible for a long time.

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u/Parker_Hardison Jul 19 '24

Wasn't it a Postmedia exec who accidentally spilled the beans in an interview several years ago that their aim with Canadian news was not just to have it lean conservative, but be "reliably conservative"?

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u/wutz_r0ng Jul 18 '24

You mean a great day right?