Doing more with fewer resources could lead to less context in news, professor says

One skilled says BCE Inc.’s widespread layoffs, together with at Bell Media, will result in additional deterioration of native newsrooms and journalism that’s much less contextual.

Magda Konieczna, an affiliate journalism professor at Concordia University, says journalists are more and more being tasked with doing extra regardless of fewer assets.

Konieczna, who researches native news, says this could result in tales that aren’t as deep as viewers count on, because of reporters having to divide their consideration between submitting content material that feeds a number of platforms.

Bell Media mentioned Thursday it’s ending a number of tv newscasts and making different programming cuts after its mother or father firm introduced job reductions and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

The firm says underneath 10 per cent of its 4,800 eradicated positions would come from Bell Media, which incorporates each news and leisure groups. As a part of the shakeup, it says “multi-skilled journalists” would change news correspondent and technician groups in some provinces.

Chief government Mirko Bibic says Bell Media’s promoting revenues declined by $140 million in 2023 in contrast with the 12 months earlier than, and the corporate’s news division is seeing greater than $40 million in annual working losses.