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“What an absorbing and thorough look at the dilemma in Canadian journalism, David. Thank you and your insightful guests. My only quibble: unless I missed it, I don’t think anyone mentioned Canada’s National Observer, for my money one of the best written, best reported news sources available today. It is largely subscriber funded although it has received some federal money under the local news initiatives rubric. It has received a number of awards for its digital journalism since its launch, in Vancouver, in 2015, and while its primary focus is searching, fact-based environmental coverage (almost alone among major news sources), it has a national reach and covers most of the issues of the day. Subscribe!
My second comment has to do with a point you raised: who will pay the front-line reporters, the ones who gather the news the pundit class relies upon for fodder? When I started, it was possible to make a decent living as a humble reporter; today, it seems, those jobs are more temporary and precarious. Someone mentioned Fife and Chase, both well-paid veterans; a more pertinent example might be the Ottawa reporter, say, who will be afforded time to excavate the disastrous LRT system, or the “beat” reporters of old, who knew what was really going on within the RCMP, or Foreign Affairs, or attempts to reduce methane emissions.
Can investigative, or even informed reporting online, as an individual enterprise, provide a young journalist a living wage? I don’t know, but I worry.
Thanks again. Your podcast is a valuable addition to the current media landscape!”
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07/20/23
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