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Interim report on the Canadian news media [electronic resource] / the Senate of Canada, Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications ; chair, Joan Fraser ; deputy chair, Leonard Gustafson.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 electronic text (vi, 106 p.) : digital file.
- Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Standing Senate Committe on Transportation and Communications, 2004
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Cover title. "April 2004." Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Introduction -- Part II. The state of the Canadian news media -- A. The print media -- 1. Daily newspapers -- a) Ownership and circulation -- b) Ownership and titles -- c) Readership -- 2. Weekly newspapers -- 3. Magazines and periodicals -- a) Type of publication -- b) Ownership -- B. The broadcast media -- 1. Radio -- a) Private radio ownership -- b) The national public broadcaster -- c) Radio listening data -- 2. Television -- a) Trends in ownership -- b) Viewing share by ownership -- c) Viewing preferences -- d) News and information programming -- e) Viewing data -- f) Expenditures on Canadian news and information programming -- C. Wire services -- D. The internet -- a) Internet usage data -- E. Ownership structures -- 1. Laws and limitations -- a) Horizontal concentration -- b) Vertical integration and cross-media ownership -- c) Foreign ownership -- 2. Overall trends in Canadian ownership -- a) Horizontal concentration -- b) Cross-media ownership -- c) Market share -- d) Closely held media companies -- e) Profitability -- F. Journalists -- G. Changes in reporting -- Part III. What the committee has heard to date -- A. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and media-related law -- 1. The Charter and freedom of the press -- 2. The basic positions on freedom of the press -- 3. Freedom of the press in other countries -- 4. Media-related law in Canada -- 5. Provincial dimensions to freedom of the press -- B. The "Marketplace of ideas" -- 1. Different notions of the market -- 2. Diversity -- 3. The Canadian viewpoint -- a) Empirical evidence -- 4. Indirect measures to promote a diversity of viewpoints -- 5. The impact of the internet -- C. Journalism and the possible effects of concentration and convergence -- D. Policy issues -- 1. Role of government -- a) The national public broadcaster -- b) A national public newspaper? -- c) Direct and indirect government support to the print media -- 2. Self regulation -- a) Role of private sector -- b) Role of government -- 3. Ownership -- a) The Competition Bureau and the CRTC -- b) Concentration -- c) Cross-media ownership -- 4. Foreign ownership -- Part IV. Next steps -- Appendix. Witnesses -- Tables. |
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