Last Thursday, CBC announced they have learned that Glacier Media is outsourcing jobs at the Kamloops Daily News, as well as five other papers owned by them in the lower mainland. The jobs will instead by done by an ad production facility situated in the Philipines.
Seven production workers will be let go by January at the Kamloops Daily News, and in the lower mainland 15 production workers are being let go in December, at the Abbotsford Times, Surrey Now, Burnaby Now, Coquitlam Now and New Westminster Record.