Award-Winning Canadian Journalist Was Fired After Going Grey
It's almost like society thinks women in their 50's who look their age are "past their prime"
In my last post, I asked the rhetorical question, “What do you think would happen if I showed up on set with grey hair?” Would I be seen as “seasoned” and “experienced” like my male colleagues?
We all know the answer, but the New York Times helped clarify this in a story Saturday about an award-winning 58-year old Canadian journalist who lost her job after going grey during the pandemic.
From the NYT:
A household name in Canada for decades, [Lisa] LaFlamme was unceremoniously dismissed last summer by CTV, the country’s largest private television network…[Even] though her national newscast at CTV had been one of the most watched and she had won a national award for best news anchor just months earlier, Ms. LaFlamme was left to sign off without a proper farewell. Instead, in a poorly lit, two-minute, makeshift video uploaded on her Twitter account, she said, “At 58, I still thought I’d have a lot more time to tell more of the stories that impact our daily lives.”
