Postmedia cuts 30 per cent of news jobs at St. Johns Telegram paper in takeover [Video]

About 30 per cent of newsroom jobs have been cut at a 145-year-old daily newspaper in St. John’s, N.L., following a takeover by Postmedia.

Keith Gosse, head of the union representing workers at The Telegram, says staff learned Wednesday that four of the paper’s 13 newsroom positions will be eliminated.

As well, Saturday will be the paper’s last daily print edition, as it is moving to a weekly print version beginning next week with daily news online.

Gosse says there were more than 40 people working in the newsroom when he first started at The Telegram in 1986.

Postmedia’s takeover of The Telegram is part of its acquisition of the insolvent SaltWire Network Inc. and the Halifax Herald Ltd., which together formed Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain.

The Toronto-based media company, which owns the National Post and many other properties, chose not to buy The Telegram’s printing plant in St. …