Sometimes, business is just business, as callous as it is, though that means nothing to the many Canadians who care more about great journalism than Bell's bottom line (or rather, the amount of executive bonuses). Some Twitter users have presented counterpoints that are worth considering, such as how high LaFlamme's salary must have been compared to the younger journalist replacing her. Apparently the CEO of #BellMedia is a guy named Mirko Bibic. "What do sexism and ageism look like in Canadian journalism in 2022? Bell Media replacing a trailblazing 58 year old woman journalist as anchor of CTV's nightly national newscast with a less accomplished 39 year old man," wrote another.įiring a national news anchor of Lisa LaFlamme’s stature is going to be one of the biggest Canadian business mistakes, in 2022. They did her dirty big time," wrote one fan online. Lisa LaFlamme had to sign off via a Twitter video at the cottage.
"CTV let Lloyd Roberston deliver the news until he was nearly 1000 years old and then sent him off with great fanfare. The fact that Bell is replacing LaFlamme, 58, with a 39-year-old man ( Omar Sachedina) has not gone unnoticed. Gender discrimination has been well-documented within Canadian news media, most-recently thanks to Toronto-based whistleblowers Jennifer Valentyne and Danielle Graham, both icons in their own rights. Not letting her say goodbye on air is disgusting behaviour by the network and Bell Media. No word yet from Bell on what it means by going in a "different direction," or why it would ever part ways with such a respected Canadian journalist, but people have theories - one of the more prominent ones having to do with women being pushed out of powerful visibility at far younger ages than their male colleagues. She has worked for the Canadian news brand ever since in various capacities including reporter, parliamentary correspondent, co-host, national affairs correspondent and, most recently, Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News. LaFlamme began her career with CKCO, a Kitchener-based CTV affiliate, as a copy writer and script assistant in 1988. "Recognizing changing viewer habits, CTV recently advised LaFlamme that it had made the business decision to move its acclaimed news show and the role of its Chief News Anchor in a different direction." Since 2011, LaFlamme has anchored CTV NATIONAL NEWS, and before that spent more than a decade as CTV News' National Affairs Correspondent," reads Bell Media's release. "CTV announced today that Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme is departing the network. Happy Trails to the Best of the Best.👀🎙 /WJDNtwfShX Always missed working with her now gonna miss watching her. My friend and former colleague Lisa LaFlamme leaving CTV News. Indeed, it happened on Monday, shocking probably every single person (aside from LaFlamme) who read Bell's press release announcing her "departure" from CTV News.īreaking News on someone who was always Breaking News. "I was also asked to keep this confidential from my colleagues and the public until the specifics of my exit could be resolved.
"I was blindsided and am still shocked and saddened by Bell Media's decision," she said in the video, as shared to her personal social accounts not long after Bell formally announced the news on Aug.
LaFlamme, who has interviewed everyone from Prince Harry and Paul McCartney to Alex Trebek and Bill Clinton, says she was informed on June 29 of this year that Bell Media had made a "business decision" to end her contract.
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