Itinéraire marks 25th anniversary
L’Itinéraire is marking its 25th anniversary but its existence is just as vulnerable as other print media. This week saw the end of the printed edition of Voir, for example, and Canadian Press just announced layoffs.
As someone running a news blog, I’m entirely reliant on news media as sources. I wonder what will happen to social media when it finally drives primary media to its death. Who will produce actual news then?
Hamza 10:08 on 2019-02-10 Permalink
This is admittedly a dark view of this problem but it feels like there might be a nexus of corporate and political interests in killing primary and investigative news.
qatzelok 12:05 on 2019-02-10 Permalink
The slow, agonizing death of commercial media underscores what an overall disaster it is to have profit-driven corporations choose our information for us.
Kate 12:20 on 2019-02-10 Permalink
We still have the CBC and Radio-Canada, although they’ve been chipped away over successive Conservative eras.
Patrick 18:25 on 2019-02-10 Permalink
It seems to me that there is a growing willingness to pay for media that do actual reporting, if what you get is worthwhile and delivered nicely. Like a number of my friends in Canada and the US, I subscribe to the premium Guardian app, which comes free of ads and offers a pleasant reading experience on my phone. I’m considering doing the same for La Presse, now that they are asking people to do so. Of course, I look at a lot of other sites, and I can’t subscribe to them all…(though I would to this one!).
Kate 19:00 on 2019-02-10 Permalink
I too am paying monthly for La Presse (not much, but chipping in) and annually for the Guardian. I wish I could do more but not as things stand.