Bell to conduct independent review of CTV newsroom after Lisa LaFlamme ousted
Bell Media said CTV 'regrets the way in which the news of her departure has been communicated'
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Bell Media said CTV 'regrets the way in which the news of her departure has been communicated'
The claims that a well-known television news anchor in Canada lost her job as a result of "going grey" have provoked outrage and scepticism, rocking one of the top media organisations in the nation and illuminating the strict expectations women face in the workplace. Lisa LaFlamme stated on Monday that she had been fired as the anchor of CTV National News, one of the most popular evening programmes in the nation, in a two-minute video uploaded on Twitter.
One of the country's biggest communications companies ended up losing the PR war when they fired one of their biggest stars.
Lisa LaFlamme turned down an opportunity to bid viewers a live goodbye before she was unseated from the anchor's chair on CTV's nightly newscast, Bell Media told staff in an internal memo on Thursday.
The decision to fire Lisa LaFlamme from CTV News was approved at the very top of Bell, not Bell Media but Bell Canada, according to sources.