Postmedia – Columnist — Financial Post – Toronto, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sun, 25 May 2025 06:54:33 GMT

Job description: Position: Columnist — Financial PostPosition Type: Full time, PermanentReports to: Editor-in-ChiefDivision: The Financial PostLocation: Toronto (Remote)The Company:Postmedia is a Canadian news media company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it.This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.The Financial Post is Canada’s leading business news brand and serves the National Post and other Postmedia properties, including the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette.The Opportunity:The Financial Post is hiring a columnist to bring a lively and informed perspective to our coverage of the Canadian economy. Reporting to the Editor-in-Chief, you’ll weigh in regularly on the biggest financial topics of the day, producing a combination of fact-based journalism and thought-provoking opinion that enlightens and entertains.What you’ll do:Write a regular column that helps our readers understand the most pressing financial and economic issues of the day, especially those that affect their pocketbooksProvide reporting support when breaking news requiresProvide guidance and support to other reporters in the newsroom, as neededWho you are:You have 10+ years of reporting and/or opinion writing experience in a daily newsroom, preferably in business journalismYou have a demonstrated ability to write engaging commentaryYou are familiar with the business, economics and personal finance topics that are most important to CanadiansYou have a knack for generating thought-provoking angles that go beyond the headlines of the day and journalistic clichésYou have a strong writing voice and a deep desire to help readers understand not just what happened, but why it’s important and what they should think about itYou are used to a daily newsroom environment and the need to react quickly and hit tight deadlinesIf you are interested in this position, please apply with a cover letter, resumé and links to recent work.We thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Postmedia – Corporate Legal Counsel – Toronto, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Fri, 09 May 2025 22:17:25 GMT

Job description: Position: Corporate Legal CounselPosition Type: Full time, PermanentLocation: Toronto, ON (Remote)The Company:Postmedia is a Canadian news media company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it. This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.Summary:Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Postmedia’s Legal Department is looking for a talented corporate / commercial lawyer based in Toronto to join its close-knit and collaborative legal team. This position will have primary responsibility for:

  • Corporate, securities and governance compliance matters,
  • Compliance with indentures and ABL,
  • Supporting transactions, and
  • Advising on and negotiating a variety of commercial matters, including joint ventures and content licenses.

Working closely with the board of directors and senior management, this role provides the benefits of working within an established legal group while servicing a dynamic and innovative business. As with all positions in the Legal Department, the position acts as an ambassador for the department throughout the organization.Duties:

  • Take a lead role in assessing corporate opportunities and executing M&A transactions.
  • Work closely with the Finance team to ensure compliance with debt and banking covenants.
  • Corporate secretarial work including advising board and senior management on governance matters and overseeing management and board preparation for board materials including agenda design and materials preparation.
  • Provide legal guidance with respect to securities filings and compliance requirements, competition guidelines and other regulatory matters as well as internal corporate policies.
  • Draft and negotiate a variety of contracts including joint-venture agreements, service agreements, content licenses, purchase agreements, etc.
  • Support the Human Resources and Finance departments in respect of equity-based compensation arrangements.
  • Liaise with a number of internal and external stakeholders including senior management, directors, external counsel, notes trustees and shareholders; and
  • Advise on strategic partnership arrangements and other innovative projects, supporting the commercial operations team.

Qualifications:

  • 3 to 5 years’ experience since their Call to the Ontario Bar within a major law firm or corporate legal department.
  • Good standing as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
  • Strong experience in corporate, securities, transactions and/or commercial law.
  • An inquisitive and positive attitude, sound judgement even in ambiguous situations and a strong interest in being a true partner and service provider to the business.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a closely knit and supportive team.
  • Integrity and strong work ethic.
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to juggle competing demands in an extremely fast-paced and changing work environment; and a strong ability to collaborate and provide value added advice to the business.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest. However, only those under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies, please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Postmedia – Multimedia Journalist – Sault Ste Marie, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Sault Ste Marie, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sat, 10 May 2025 03:07:43 GMT

Job description: Position: Multimedia JournalistPosition Type: Full-time, PermanentLocation: S.S Marie (Remote)The Company:Postmedia is a Canadian news media company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it.This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.The Opportunity:Working in the Sault Star newsroom, the ideal candidate is an enterprising self-starter and team player with a sense for stories that resonate with Sault Ste. Marie’s diverse readership. The candidate should be able to cultivate sources, find stories buried in documents and break news on tight deadlines while writing in a way that is clear, concise and engaging. Knowledge of Northern Ontario, Indigenous issues, business, municipal politics, immigration, sports, including the Ontario Hockey League, and general news are assets. The successful candidate will spend 50 per cent of their time on general news, especially covering business stories and news features that lend themselves to Postmedia’s long-read format. The rest of their time will be spent covering local sports, especially the Soo Greyhounds of the OHL, and they will be expected to file stories and features suitable for Postmedia’s OHL newsletter. In addition, the successful candidate will help lead the way as the Sault newsroom adopts new storytelling and web tools, such as long-story features, Explainers and blogs using Viafora.What you’ll do:

  • Reporting and writing stories for print, web and mobile audiences – as well as tailoring content to meet the varying needs of those platforms.

Initiating and developing ideas for enterprise stories and investigative projects.Cultivating sources and establishing expertise in order to break stories and set the news agenda.Cultivating sources and establishing expertise in order to break stories and set the news.Filing video clips for digital platforms; working with digital teams to create interactive maps and graphics, searchable databases, and other multimedia elements.Who you are

  • You have 1+ years of newsroom experience.
  • Flexibility to write effectively in breaking news, features and short form is essential.
  • Background knowledge of business is helpful. More important is having the drive and ability to dig deep, to get answers and to be able to see story angles in numbers.
  • You need an ability to identify trends and drivers behind the news that allows you to explain why and how, as well as what is happening.
  • A talent for explanatory journalism is a must. Politics, business and sports are full of jargon: You need to be able to translate it for expert and novice readers alike.
  • Being strong with data analysis is an asset.
  • Experience and strength in video or podcast presentation is an asset.

Note: This is a union position and the recipient will become a member of CWA Local 30746 following the 90 day probation periodWe thank all applicants in advance for their interest. However, only those under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies, please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Postmedia – Digital Editor – Toronto, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sat, 10 May 2025 06:18:16 GMT

Job description: Position: Digital Editor, Toronto SunPosition type: Full-time, permanent, management
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Remote)
Division: Postmedia EditorialThe company:Postmedia is a Canadian newsmedia company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it. This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.The opportunity:The Toronto Sun is seeking a Digital Editor to oversee the day-to-day presentation of content on its website, torontosun.com. The ideal candidate, working with a digital team and reporters in the field, is a skilled editor with a critical eye and digital vision for online readership growth. The Digital Editor will have a vast understanding of analytics and trends relative to a continuous news cycle. The Digital Editor is a wordsmith who is skilled at crafting SEO headlines and is unafraid of difficult conversations and getting others to pivot to meet digital needs. The Digital Editor must flexibly juggle assignments, editing and generating ideas for content to attract and keep readers returning to torontosun.com. The Digital Editor will report to the Editor-in-Chief and work closely with City Desk editors. Part-webmaster, part-editor, the Digital Editor requires outstanding organizational and leadership skills and demonstrates a deep understanding of news that matters most to torontosun.com readers. The ability to use digital tools to identify news needs and maximize ways to meet them is critical to the position, as is working closely with the day-side assistant news editor (digital) and the newsroom’s city desk.The position is based in Toronto, working with a remote newsroom.What you’ll do:

  • Delve into analytics to help drive the newsroom to meet digital audience needs.
  • Prepare regular reports using detailed analytics to ensure the website is hitting or exceeding performance targets.
  • Edit news stories with a critical eye and enrich their linear presentation for our digital platforms, driving online engagement with our journalism.
  • Attend meetings as required with editors to plan and discuss content and spot daily opportunities on your cycle for the newsroom to jump on in the next cycle.
  • Generate ideas for digital content through formats including non-traditional explainers and live coverage files that meet readers where they are.
  • Help, as needed, in guiding production of the newsroom’s regular reader newsletters.

Who you are (qualifications):

  • An editor experienced in daily newsroom digital journalism with fast-paced deadlines, fluent in digital and social platforms.
  • A skilled journalist and communicator, with the ability to quickly adapt to changing news needs and evolving situations requiring speed and flexibility.
  • Not just a team player, but a playmaker able to spot and make wins happen.
  • An editor familiar with industry content standards, including CP style, plus a working understanding of key legal issues such as the laws of libel and slander.
  • Experience using Parsley and Google analytics.

We thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Postmedia – Copy Editor/Paginator – Hamilton, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Hamilton, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:49:43 GMT

Job description: Position: Copy Editor/Paginator
Position Type: Full-time, permanent
Reports to: National Arts & Features Editors
Location: Remote (Hamilton)The Company:Postmedia is a Canadian newsmedia company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it.This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.The Opportunity:Are you looking to join a dynamic and innovative team of journalists working across Canada? Postmedia is looking to hire a temporary part-time copy editor with page design skills who has significant experience at a daily newspaper. The successful candidate will edit stories, ensuring timeliness, relevance, and creative storytelling. The candidate we are looking for is a team player and a self-starter, at ease in a deadline-oriented setting, and accustomed to fast-paced content creation. Our editor will be at ease editing features and entertainment copy but also have an affinity for pagination and print page design.What you’ll do:⦁ Ensure accuracy of display content in print products.
⦁ Liaise with newspapers across Postmedia to ensure content delivery matches expectations.
⦁ Edit copy, craft display type
⦁ Build print pages in a Saxo environment.Key attributes:⦁ At least five years of experience editing a daily newspaper, preferably working in print.
⦁ Talent for writing clever headlines with clarity that capture the essence of a story.
⦁ Keen eye for print design.
⦁ Excellent grammar, comprehension and editing skills.
⦁ Strong organizational skills with good attention to detail.
⦁ Experience in a fast-paced daily newsroom.
⦁ Good interpersonal communication skills.
⦁ Ability to resolve conflict and solve problems.
⦁ Proficiency in CP styleWe thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Postmedia – Corporate Legal Counsel – Toronto, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:36:55 GMT

Job description: Position: Corporate Legal CounselPosition Type: Full time, PermanentLocation: Toronto, ON (Remote)The Company:Postmedia is a Canadian news media company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it. This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.Summary:Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Postmedia’s Legal Department is looking for a talented corporate / commercial lawyer based in Toronto to join its close-knit and collaborative legal team. This position will have primary responsibility for:

  • Corporate, securities and governance compliance matters,
  • Compliance with indentures and ABL,
  • Supporting transactions, and
  • Advising on and negotiating a variety of commercial matters, including joint ventures and content licenses.

Working closely with the board of directors and senior management, this role provides the benefits of working within an established legal group while servicing a dynamic and innovative business. As with all positions in the Legal Department, the position acts as an ambassador for the department throughout the organization.Duties:

  • Take a lead role in assessing corporate opportunities and executing M&A transactions.
  • Work closely with the Finance team to ensure compliance with debt and banking covenants.
  • Corporate secretarial work including advising board and senior management on governance matters and overseeing management and board preparation for board materials including agenda design and materials preparation.
  • Provide legal guidance with respect to securities filings and compliance requirements, competition guidelines and other regulatory matters as well as internal corporate policies.
  • Draft and negotiate a variety of contracts including joint-venture agreements, service agreements, content licenses, purchase agreements, etc.
  • Support the Human Resources and Finance departments in respect of equity-based compensation arrangements.
  • Liaise with a number of internal and external stakeholders including senior management, directors, external counsel, notes trustees and shareholders; and
  • Advise on strategic partnership arrangements and other innovative projects, supporting the commercial operations team.

Qualifications:

  • 3 to 5 years’ experience since their Call to the Ontario Bar within a major law firm or corporate legal department.
  • Good standing as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
  • Strong experience in corporate, securities, transactions and/or commercial law.
  • An inquisitive and positive attitude, sound judgement even in ambiguous situations and a strong interest in being a true partner and service provider to the business.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a closely knit and supportive team.
  • Integrity and strong work ethic.
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to juggle competing demands in an extremely fast-paced and changing work environment; and a strong ability to collaborate and provide value added advice to the business.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest. However, only those under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies, please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Postmedia – Digital Editor – Toronto, ON

Company: Postmedia

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:16:34 GMT

Job description: Position: Digital Editor, Toronto SunPosition type: Full-time, permanent, management
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Remote)
Division: Postmedia EditorialThe company:Postmedia is a Canadian newsmedia company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it. This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.The opportunity:The Toronto Sun is seeking a Digital Editor to oversee the day-to-day presentation of content on its website, torontosun.com. The ideal candidate, working with a digital team and reporters in the field, is a skilled editor with a critical eye and digital vision for online readership growth. The Digital Editor will have a vast understanding of analytics and trends relative to a continuous news cycle. The Digital Editor is a wordsmith who is skilled at crafting SEO headlines and is unafraid of difficult conversations and getting others to pivot to meet digital needs. The Digital Editor must flexibly juggle assignments, editing and generating ideas for content to attract and keep readers returning to torontosun.com. The Digital Editor will report to the Editor-in-Chief and work closely with City Desk editors. Part-webmaster, part-editor, the Digital Editor requires outstanding organizational and leadership skills and demonstrates a deep understanding of news that matters most to torontosun.com readers. The ability to use digital tools to identify news needs and maximize ways to meet them is critical to the position, as is working closely with the day-side assistant news editor (digital) and the newsroom’s city desk.The position is based in Toronto, working with a remote newsroom.What you’ll do:

  • Delve into analytics to help drive the newsroom to meet digital audience needs.
  • Prepare regular reports using detailed analytics to ensure the website is hitting or exceeding performance targets.
  • Edit news stories with a critical eye and enrich their linear presentation for our digital platforms, driving online engagement with our journalism.
  • Attend meetings as required with editors to plan and discuss content and spot daily opportunities on your cycle for the newsroom to jump on in the next cycle.
  • Generate ideas for digital content through formats including non-traditional explainers and live coverage files that meet readers where they are.
  • Help, as needed, in guiding production of the newsroom’s regular reader newsletters.

Who you are (qualifications):

  • An editor experienced in daily newsroom digital journalism with fast-paced deadlines, fluent in digital and social platforms.
  • A skilled journalist and communicator, with the ability to quickly adapt to changing news needs and evolving situations requiring speed and flexibility.
  • Not just a team player, but a playmaker able to spot and make wins happen.
  • An editor familiar with industry content standards, including CP style, plus a working understanding of key legal issues such as the laws of libel and slander.
  • Experience using Parsley and Google analytics.

We thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.