iPolitics lays off five after ownership change

Two full-time and two part-time staff and one freelancer were laid off Nov. 8 in the wake of Torstar’s $1.4-million purchase Oct. 1, though new editor Marco Vigliotti was also hired.

Torstar acquired iPolitics, which has a second-floor office on York Street in Ottawa's ByWard Market, for about $1.4-million on Oct. 1.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

November 14, 2018

The new owner of the political journalism website iPolitics has laid off five members of its newsroom, little more than a month after founder James Baxter said nobody was to lose their job in the handover. Torstar Cor...

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