Twitter has changed its mind!

 Twitter has removed its labels for the CBC in Canada, BBC in Britain, NPR in the United States and other media outlets in China, Iran and Russia, as global news organizations evaluate their presence on the social-media platform and its use as a communications tool amid its mercurial moves.

Earlier this week, the CBC had been labelled as “69% Government-funded Media.” The Canadian public broadcaster said Twitter chief executive Elon Musk was treating journalistic independence “as a game.” The CBC decided to pause activity on Twitter for the foreseeable future, mirroring similar decisions made by NPR and PBS in the U.S.

“We are reviewing this latest development and will leave our Twitter accounts on pause before taking any next steps,” CBC spokesperson Leon Mar told The Globe and Mail on Friday. (Globe and Mail)

CBC pauses Twitter activity

 

The CBC  said Monday that it was pausing activity on Twitter, becoming the latest media outlet to refrain from posting because of the social-media platform’s policy on labeling accounts. 

CBC said the decision comes a day after Twitter labeled its @CBC account as “government-funded media.” Twitter defines such outlets as those that rely mostly on government funding to carry out operations “and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.”

Postmedia into "working from home"

 

Postmedia is shuttering its Vancouver newsrooms and asking its journalists to work from home permanently, The Globe and Mail reports.

It’s the latest move by the media company – which owns more than 130 brands, including the National Post, Vancouver Sun, The Province and Montreal Gazette – to shrink costs.

In an internal memo obtained by The Globe and Mail and sent by Harold Munro, editor-in-chief for The Vancouver Sun and Province on Thursday morning, journalists at the papers were informed that their newsroom and office space will go on the market as early as next week.

“It’s been three years since we vacated the newsrooms to work primarily from home. Initial concerns about the sudden shift quickly gave way to a pleasant realization that all of you have the tools and talent to thrive away from the office,” the memo reads.

“This is to inform you that Postmedia plans to sublease the newsroom and office space.” (Globe and Mail)