Fallout From Lockout Gets Positive Spin: Quebecor’s Journal de Montréal
Posted: 7/24/2012 | By: Emma Knight | EditorsWeblog.org
The newsroom of the Journal de Montréal, the largest-circulation French-language newspaper in North America, has a distinctive feature: it is practically devoid of journalists.
This is not because the tabloid’s parent company, Quebecor Media Inc, has locked them outside of the building, as it did on January 24, 2009, causing 253 of the tabloid’s staff to picket outside for two years, in what became the longest media labour dispute in Canadian history; rather, it is part of the company’s latest modernization strategy.
This is not because the tabloid’s parent company, Quebecor Media Inc, has locked them outside of the building, as it did on January 24, 2009, causing 253 of the tabloid’s staff to picket outside for two years, in what became the longest media labour dispute in Canadian history; rather, it is part of the company’s latest modernization strategy.