{"id":19208,"date":"2024-02-09T00:42:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/heritage-minister-calls-bell-media-job-cuts-extremely-disappointing\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:42:59","slug":"heritage-minister-calls-bell-media-job-cuts-extremely-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/heritage-minister-calls-bell-media-job-cuts-extremely-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage minister calls Bell Media job cuts &#8216;extremely disappointing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZgwAMChleho\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bell Media&#8217;s parent company, BCE Inc., is laying off thousands of its employees, including hundreds of journalists. This move from the telecom giant has drawn the ire of the federal heritage minister, who said Thursday that Bell has broken a long-held promise to deliver quality local news.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on TikTok:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell Media&#8217;s parent company, BCE Inc., is laying off thousands of its employees, including hundreds of journalists. This move from the telecom giant has drawn the ire of the federal heritage minister, who said Thursday that Bell has broken a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20956,1756,87,7923,12711,7925,2067],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}