BCE cuts raise questions about future CTV news strategy, highlight tech pressures
TORONTO — The strain facing traditional TV news organizations is well-established but a swath of layoffs that cut several of CTV’s best-known news personalities was a surprise to many, including national reporter Joyce Napier.
While staff expected “a restructuring” was in the works, details were “very much a mystery,” she said. Her comments were echoed by another laid-off journalist and a former colleague still with the company, neither of whom would go on the record. Foreign bureaus in London and Los Angeles will close, while the Washington, D.C., office is scaling back “to focus more fully on important news from the U.S.A. and the impacts on Canada,” vice-president of news Richard Gray said in a letter to staff, adding major stories will still be covered"on-location around the world when needed."He said videographers will immediately be stationed in Regina and St. John’s, N.L.
While she hasn’t examined Bell Media’s operations, she said the survival of traditional outlets depends on embracing newer digital models such as ad-based video-on-demand and free ad-supported TV .
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