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Laura Howells

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Toronto Star building sign

Torstar rebranding Metro dailies, putting focus on local and investigative coverage

Torstar is morphing five Metro dailies into the Toronto Star brand, as it hires 20 new reporters in Vancouver and Alberta and refocuses the newspapers on investigative coverage.
Websites for the shuttered papers now redirect to Postmedia or Metroland sites for the same region. (Screenshot/Norfolk News)

Fates uncertain for digital archives of papers closed in the Postmedia-Torstar deal

Last month, Torstar and Postmedia shuttered more than 30 local newspapers. Some reporters have lost their portfolios, as well as their jobs.
Matthew Halliday and Chelsea Murray

Diving Deep into Atlantic Canada

The east coast’s new home for longform journalism, the Deep, is off to a promising start.