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How Doug Ford is endangering local news ecosystems
Since the Ontario premier announced changes to student fee policies, many have called out the risks for campus media. But weakening student journalism won’t just threaten the schools’ information access -
Whitehorse Star cuts print days in anticipation of carbon tax
The Yukon-based newspaper goes down to three editions per week for the first time since 1985 -
A fourth-generation newspaper rides the waves of change
Why a 109-year old, family-owned Alberta outlet remains optimistic about the future despite a shifting rural population -
Facebook Canada announces $2.5-million investment in Canadian news industry
The social media giant pledges funds to launch a Local News Accelerator -
Delivery by the thousands beneath glacier-clad peaks
How a woman from southern Ontario and a man from the Prairies figured out local-news survival in B.C.’s Kootenays -
Bail out the journalists, not their bosses
Rather than bolstering the corporations that have decimated Canada’s media ecosystem, the federal tax incentive package should be used to fund journalists’ work -
Not gold, but close
The warming effects of local media in a subarctic town -
The Journalism Fund Tracker
The latest news and commentary on the federal government’s $600-million tax package for the Canadian journalism industry -
Vanishing City Hall
Dale Bass started her 45-year journalism career in 1973 at the London Free Press. She remembers a bustling newsroom of 185, with two or three city hall reporters. Bass would sometimes be sent to the municipal Committee of Adjustments, which… -
Funding journalism means defining who’s a journalist – not a bad thing
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The federal government’s recent announcement of financial support for news organizations has been met with understandably wide-ranging reactions — from relief to skepticism,…
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