Toronto, ON, Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — After two conservative-minded businessmen bought The Toronto Star, critics predicted the end of the long-struggling liberal newspaper. And then came a worldwide pandemic. Premiering Sunday, November 20, 2022, on TVO—with streaming available via , , the TVO Today mobile app and smart TV services from November 18— TVO Original Viral News is the story of how the efforts of Star journalists shaped our understanding of COVID and immersed the new owners in the gravity of their task.
“Viral News focuses on the Star as a major metropolitan newspaper struggling to survive in the digital age while trying to cover the biggest story in decades,” says John Ferri, VP of Programming and Content at TVO.“But it addresses a much larger question: What would be lost if news organizations like this one were…
