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News Media Canada is inviting news media organizations to submit applications for the Local Journalism Initiative, which provides funding to hire reporters to cover civic issues and institutions in underserved communities across Canada.
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Black Press Media, publishers of community newspapers and news websites in BC, Alberta, and Yukon, has announced the acquisition of NNSL Media, publishers of seven community newspapers and two news websites based in Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
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Nine in ten (89%) readers read for local information including local news, editorial, sports, entertainment, events, crime features and obituaries. Advertising is the second most popular reason for reading and half of print readers are reading for advertising that includes ROP and flyers.
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Coverage of COVID-19, from first-person reporting and poignant pictures to deep investigations and scathing editorial cartoons, dominated as finalists for the 2020 National Newspaper Awards have been announced.
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The Globe and Mail's Grant Robertson was been awarded the 2021 Canadian Hillman Prize for his unparalleled investigation into how Canada's world-renowned global pandemic early warning system went silent just months before COVID-19.
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The Embassy of Canada is organizing a webinar on media freedom, safeguarding local voices and quality journalism in Canada and in Finland on March 22. Both News Media Canada chair Bob Cox, and president and CEO John Hinds will be making presentations.
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This annual competition is open to daily newspaper journalists between the ages of 20 and 25, working for News Media Canada member daily newspapers.
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Last November, the Canadian Association of Journalists launched the 2020 Canadian Newsroom Diversity Survey, which remains Canada's first representative survey of diversity in media. So far, more than 40 news organizations have completed the survey - and many more have committed to doing so. The deadline to submit your organization's information is April 2, 2021.
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News Media Canada has produced a NEW house ad campaign to support the lobbying effort against Google and Facebook as part of the Levelling the Digital Playing Field program.
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A total of ten finalists have been chosen for the 2020 Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting and its French counterpart prix En-Tête pour le reportage en santé mentale au travail - five for each award.
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For this upcoming Newspaper Day, moderated by John Tory, we will be discussing how publishers can work in partnership with Local Businesses in the re-opening of the economy and to support them in 2021.
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