The newspaper charge of monopoly against tech giants like Google and Facebook is laughable since they obviously have competitors, writes Marc Edge. Illustration courtesy Raconteur. Newspaper publishers complain that Google…
Canada can fund news media without robbing Google and Facebook, but it will involve clawing back some of the monopoly profits being raked in by our giant telecom companies. Photo…
Photo by congerdesign/Pixabay While MPs wrangle clause-by-clause over Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which aims to redistribute hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Google and Facebook to…
Photo by Roman Kraft/Wikimedia Commons Instead of plugging the holes in a sinking newspaper ship with successive bailouts, Ottawa should formulate a long-term national news media strategy that doesn’t undermine…
Big telecom companies like Rogers and Bell continue to take the lion’s share from subscription revenues for cable, Internet access, and wireless services. Photo by Paul Mckinnon/Dreamstime. Those following the…
Last week, MPs confronted Meta executives over their threat to block Canadians from sharing news across Facebook and other platforms. Photo by Christoph Scholz/Flickr. Heritage committee hearings into the Online…
Entrance sign at Meta’s headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The high-stakes game of chicken that is the Online News Act reached a new, dangerous level…
The hedge fund bet on Canadian newspapers will pay off big if Ottawa passes Bill C-18, the Online News Act, writes journalism researcher and author Marc Edge. Photo from Flickr.…
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Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in Network (1976). Image courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The disquiet among Canadians is palpable. Disdain for their news media is unmistakable. It is the end…
Photo by Nelly Antoniadou/Flickr A National Post investigation of lobbying efforts by cultural groups hoping to shape the controversial Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, has shown that they succeeded…
Ottawa seems determined to bring online communication in Canada under the thumb of federal bureaucrats, writes journalist and author Marc Edge. Photo by Jason Howie/Flickr. It has been called a…
Rupert Murdoch’s victory in Australia has been seized on by publishers in other countries, including Canada, who are hoping to use it to persuade their governments to enact similar legislation…
Newspapers have had no shame in gaslighting us for decades, writes Marc Edge. Photo by Julie Fish/Spacing. Since 2018, Canada’s news media industry has been on the receiving end of…
News media have undeniably been diminished financially in recent years due to the flight of advertising revenues online. The situation in Canada, however, seems to have been systematically overblown by…
