{"id":797688,"date":"2026-07-12T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:00:10","slug":"massive-layoffs-at-rogers-may-create-a-canadian-news-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797688\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Layoffs at Rogers May Create a Canadian \u201cNews Desert\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lana-payne-post.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Massive Layoffs at Rogers May Create a Canadian &quot;News Desert&quot;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Via Lana Payne on X)<\/p>\n<p>The President of Unifor is warning about the \u201cnews desert\u201d being created in Canada following massive layoffs at Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>The media company recently announced the layoff of 230 people and the shutdown of six radio stations in Halifax, Calgary, Kitchener and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The news came shortly after Rogers announced that it had bought out Kilmer Sports 25 per cent ownership stake at $4.35 billion to become the 100 per cent owner of Maple Leaf Sports &amp; Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Lana Payne says Canada is \u201cbecoming a news desert and the systems designed to protect local news and journalism\u201d are failing all Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Via Lana Payne on X) The President of Unifor is warning about the \u201cnews desert\u201d being created&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-797688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}