Looking back at the Ottawa Journal's final edition
In a week where the city's local media landscape got shaken up, Our Ottawa goes back 36 years for a report on the demise of the Ottawa Journal.
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This week's merger of the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Sun newsrooms has Our Ottawa looking back at another momentous moment in the city's media history.
- Ottawa Sun staff laid off as Citizen, Sun newsrooms merge
- Postmedia-Sun merger 'foolishly' accepted by Competition Bureau, prof says
It was in August 1980 — 36 years ago — that the Ottawa Journal published its final edition, after being bought earlier that year by the Thompson Newspapers chain.
You can watch the segment here or tune into Our Ottawa, CBC Television's weekly program, when it airs Saturday at noon, Sunday at 11 a.m. and Monday at 11 a.m.
Join host Adrian Harewood for a look at what's happening in our community, plus lifestyle tips and stories about health, music, and arts and entertainment.
Also on Our Ottawa this week:
- January is Alzheimer's Awareness Month, and Lesley Sullivan, the owner of Home Instead Senior Care, stops by to talk about how to offer support to seniors and their caregivers.
- Carleton University journalism professor and former Ottawa Citizen reporter Randy Boswell discusses how this week's big newspaper merger will affect journalism students.
- We play an excerpt from Ottawa Morning's interview with the Ottawa Jazz Festival's Petr Cancura about the impact of the plunging Canadian loonie.
- Ian Black shares a few CBC listeners' winter weather photos.
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