"After ten years in the service of HuffPost, I learned this morning that I was fired"
, rebelled yesterday morning Claire Fallon, freshly ex-journalist at HuffPost.
Like her, 70 of her Canadian and American colleagues lost their posts on Tuesday.
Since then, the news sites HuffPost Quebec and HuffPost Canada have stopped publishing press articles.
The owner of the title, the American giant BuzzFeed, has announced the removal of all Canadian editorial staff, 23 journalists in Toronto and Montreal.
At the same time, the group is cutting 47 positions in the United States.
"Not totally a surprise"
"As of March 9, HuffPost (Canada and Quebec) will no longer publish content"
, we can read on the site.
“Existing content will be kept as an online archive;
some features of the site have been disabled, ”
said the message that refers to the global site HuffPost.com.
The employees learned the news on the very day of their dismissal.
They were invited in the morning by e-mail to a
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