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Postmedia-Torstar’s deal to close 37 papers a big loss for communities, say MPs, Hill reporters

‘It’s going to be very hard to find free news in Ottawa’ going forward, says now-former Metro Ottawa reporter Kieran Delamont, adding the capital is ‘now entirely basically a Postmedia paper town.’

A Metro Ottawa news box sits empty on Bank Street in Ottawa, beside a box for the Ottawa Sun, a Postmedia paper which saw its newsroom merged with the Ottawa Citizen's in 2016.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

December 4, 2017

The Postmedia-Torstar deal announced last week to shut down 37 community newspapers, including nine in Ottawa, is another blow to the business and a loss for those communities, say MPs and Hill reporters. “The local papers present stories that the national papers don’t and honestly can’t. The...

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