Canadian Heritage committee  Thinking about and studying the whole strength in diversity thing in this country is deeply interesting, because it's not just about making sure you've covered every niche group and you're telling their stories. That's important, but it's not just that. It's also the language Can

Canadian Heritage committee  On television news.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank God I'm not in broadcasting now, although I started there many years ago.

Canadian Heritage committee  Right.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I would suggest a couple of things. We talked a second ago about how the digital environment is really changing this. One of the fastest-growing areas in digital right now is video. It's really interesting. Blogs were the flavour of the month for a while, all kinds of dif

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll take a U.S. example, because when I founded ImpreMedia, which is the largest Spanish-language news thing in America—we had daily newspapers in New York, L.A., Chicago, and all over the place—we put cameras into our reporters' hands. The big Spanish-language television networ

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely there's a demand for local news, and frankly this is where digital truly has disintermediated the delivery of information. The challenge becomes whether it is accurate, whether you have the news discipline. I go back to the editor thing, which is just as important in n

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, just for that airport; and we have magazines just for provinces. Magazines make a difference in the news environment. I'll give you one example. This is perhaps not the best, because I'm going to talk about Toronto as opposed to Victoria. If you think of a monthly magazine

Canadian Heritage committee  We're here to help.

Canadian Heritage committee  I wish I could say yes; I cannot. I said earlier that there's a narrative saying that we're going from print to digital, and that's not true. It's not true, but there will be a lot of magazines that will not survive if this continues and if people don't discover an alternate sour

Canadian Heritage committee  That's also true as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Asking about how advertising works is like a layup, so thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  However, I would start by saying that advertising in magazines is falling off precipitously. It didn't fall off as quickly as it did in newspapers, but it's catching up. Magazine advertising in Canada is down 50% plus. In fact, the advertising in 2016 is actually falling off fast

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. That's a very good question. The CPF, the Canadian periodical fund, is a successor to the Canadian postal subsidy that happened before Confederation. The idea with the postal subsidy was that every Canadian would be treated equally. It didn't matter where you lived in

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a very good question, this notion of magazines, as a group, lasting for a certain number of years, with some closing and new ones starting up. People are always starting new magazines, and occasionally magazines fold. As Matthew said in his introductory remarks, we have a