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Canada’s two national newspapers told staff about job cuts Monday and Postmedia Network Canada Corp. announced plans to outsource classified ad sales as the publishing industry continues to search for savings amid disappointing digital revenue growth.

Postmedia said it would shut down operations at a Calgary call centre this spring and outsource the work of selling classified ads for its newspaper chain of to U.S.-based Media Sales Plus Inc. The move will affect most of the approximately 48 employees at the call centre although a few will remain to manage the relationship with the U.S. vendor, a Postmedia spokeswoman said.

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Torstar Corp. said in November it was outsourcing advertising sales at the Toronto Star to Metro English Canada, another media property it owns.

Also Monday, both The Globe and Mail and the Postmedia-owned National Post held newsroom meetings with employees to discuss layoffs.