Culture

None of the Quebec-based production companies or unions representing actors, directors or writers contacted by The Canadian Press said they have heard of any French-language movie or television series in development by Netflix in the province.

More than a million people worldwide have contributed to the Guardian in the last three years, with 500,000 paying to support the publication on an ongoing basis, according to Guardian News and Media’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner.

Ojibwe film programmer Jesse Wente is the first director of the newly created Indigenous Screen Office, an initiative launched last year by funding agencies, producers and broadcasters.

The reporter provides an update on the media crisis and how it is ravaging local weekly newspapers in Quebec. Through the voice of different players, she highlights the rôle of local media in communities and identifies different aspects of the crisis.

While his rallies often focus on bashing “fake news media,” Trump has done at least 10 local news interviews in October.

A delegation of Unifor activists and leaders will be in Ottawa next week to urge the federal government to take action to address the crisis in Canadian journalism as newsrooms continue to shrink across the country.

The founder of Craigslist, which has drained billions from newspapers, is now donating millions to the beleaguered media industry.

According to data collected by the Local News Research Project, a majority of closures have been community papers.

Researcher says that new kinds of collaborations are helping fill the gaps, but investment is also needed for experiments in civic information.