The reason we've seen the precipitous decline of the financial viability of the journalism sector as it was previously constructed is that the advertising revenue that it once depended on is gone. That is the reality. If that had led to a fertile digital ecosystem of vibrant digital start-ups, doing better journalism than their legacy institutions were, we wouldn't have a problem. That is not what has happened, at least in Canada, yet.
If that's what we want to create and enable, then we need to look at policies that can help enable that emerging journalism production. Maybe we're okay with the amount of journalism being done now, as it's produced in our democracy, but I argue we shouldn't be. For example, there are around 100 newspapers left in Canada. Their total revenue is now lower than the revenue of the CBC. I personally don't think that's a healthy ecosystem. There are a host of journalism-related policies we could talk about to help enable this new ecosystem.