One of those laid off was Scott Roberts, co-host of CTV Vancouver’s CTV News at Six. Continue reading to find out more about his laid-off.
Bell Media is gutting newsrooms once again, this time in Vancouver, with another round of layoffs.
Several high-profile employees at CTV Vancouver and Bell-owned radio stations have been laid off, according to Daily Hive.
Furthermore, Daily Hive shared tweets from a number of those who had been laid off, confirming the layoffs. Scott Roberts, co-host of CTV News at Six on CTV Vancouver, was among those laid off.
Roberts, a Jack Webster Award-winning journalist, had been with the station for over a decade and co-anchored the show with veteran journalist Mi-Jung Lee since August 2018.
Why Was CTV News Vancouver Scott Roberts Laid Off -What Happened To Him?
Scott Roberts, co-anchor of CTV’s 6 p.m. newscast, was laid off. However, Mi-Jung Lee, his co-host, was unharmed.
Roberts said he’d had a difficult day in a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday evening.
According to his online biography, Roberts began his career with a journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto, followed by a job at the Toronto Star.
He then went on to work for the Globe and Mail before joining CTV in 2012.
Since August 2018, Roberts had been co-anchoring the CTV nightly news with Lee and had won several journalism awards.
Tamara Taggart and Mike Killeen, who were fired in April 2018, were replaced by the duo. Bill Good and Pamela Martin, who left their jobs in 2011, were replaced by Taggart and Killeen.
Roberts has also covered politics extensively, anchoring the RTDNA’s Best Live News Special for Canada’s Best Provincial Election in 2020.
Meet Scott Roberts Partner
Scott Roberts is happily engaged to his partner. The journalist is openly gay, and he doesn’t shy away from expressing his love to his better half.
Scott has not shared the details about his partner. However, in 2016 he posted pictures on Twitter announcing his engagement.
He captioned the post, “So this happened this weekend…I got engaged! Thanks to everybody who made it such a memorable weekend.”
Scott and his partner reside in Vancouver. He grew up in a horse racing community in Dresden, Ont., and still enjoys watching the sport.
Scott Roberts Net Worth Details
Scott Roberts’s net worth is still under review. However, as a successful journalist, he must have accumulated a huge fortune.
Scott has been nominated for the Jack Webster Award five times and has won it once.
The journalist was nominated for a special series on oil pipeline concerns, which required him to travel to Battle Creek, Michigan, to investigate an Enbridge oil spill and how it might affect a pipeline proposal in British Columbia.
Scott was also nominated for an Edward R. Murrow Award for an exclusive series on animal abuse uncovered by hidden camera footage at dairy farms in the Fraser Valley.
He also won a Jack Webster Award for his work as part of the news team that investigated Serena Vermeersch’s murder, uncovering evidence that her killer should never have been released from prison.