The disintegration of the Postmedia chain

There’s big trouble in Postmedialand. Recently, the sad state of Canada’s largest media chain was the subject of some old-style gumshoe reporting by the National Observer’s Bruce Livesey.
In his exposé of a beleaguered news outfit circling the drain, Livesey shows how Postmedia is being slowly hollowed out — ethically, journalistically and financially.
Livesey’s a rarity in Canadian media these days. While the usual carnival barker columnists have been offering the usual apron-over-the-head hysterics about Justin Trudeau’s nannies and his Vogue shoot, Livesey has trained his sights on what journalists talk about amongst themselves lately — the cancer of greed, entitlement and blithe stupidity gnawing away at the nation’s largest news chain, driven by its wealthy CEO, Paul Godfrey
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