March 4, 2021
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#299 Hard News, Loose Slots
Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada’s two major newspaper chains discussed shutting down each others’ papers before they swapped them.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Tiffany Lam
Producer
Kevin Sexton
Producer
Andréa Schmidt
Managing Editor, Podcasts
The Tyee’s tech and privacy reporter Bryan Carney co-hosts.
Further reading:
  •  Read Bryan’s full story here on the correspondence between Torstar and Postmedia here.
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