Canadian Heritage committee  There doesn't appear to be, at this stage anyway, a single magic bullet, and I doubt that one is on the way. You've heard all the suggestions, such as tax changes in charitable status for foundations. In the United States, there is quite a bit of experimentation going on with f

Canadian Heritage committee  Very good students are still finding jobs. That is the first point that I would make. They are not necessarily jobs for life—they might be a one-year contract—but some students are still finding jobs. Everybody is experimenting now. One of the things we're experimenting with is

Canadian Heritage committee  I just wanted to point out a couple of other factors that might have bearing on how well a community is served. There's been work in Europe that suggests that the existence of a good local newspaper might be a factor in the quality of the local news available. This research was

Canadian Heritage committee  It's true that current journalism is different for many young people starting out today, but we do offer them training that is different from what they used to get. I'm teaching a course to new master's students. For part of the stories they're doing for me this term—first of al

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. They're learning how to multi-task. We also have a course on entrepreneurialism. It's teaching them how to be entrepreneurs in their own right. There are lots of examples of opportunities in the news business that we never knew existed five years ago.

Canadian Heritage committee  It was a local news reporting site. It was started by some former journalists who worked for the newspaper. I don't know. I haven't had a chance to talk to any of them yet, but I'm assuming it had to do with the financial viability.

Canadian Heritage committee  When we chose the initial communities for this study, I was looking for a variety of communities. I wanted a rural community, the City of Kawartha Lakes. I was interested in Brandon because I think the local television station closed there a few years ago. I thought it might be i

Canadian Heritage committee  We didn't look at advertising. We just looked at news stories and news coverage.

Canadian Heritage committee  We just looked at the actual number of news stories. We gathered data. We wanted to try to get at the quality, and we haven't analyzed that work yet. We looked at the variety of sources quoted in the stories and how long the stories were, and we tried to categorize them as more i

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure. I was hoping for a question, actually. Lines of inquiry we're going to pursue come out of studies that have been done elsewhere. In the United States, for instance, one of the things they've noted is that living in the shadow of a major media centre might be a problem. For

Canadian Heritage committee  I was going to make the point that Dr. Geist did, which is that news organizations actually want aggregators that drive traffic to their sites. That's part of the way they build readership. It's considered a very powerful tool. They want aggregators that do the snippet approach,

Canadian Heritage committee  I prepared a brief for the committee that has been circulated, and I have to say Brandon isn't in my data results right now because we had to do a little bit of finishing up of the.... We didn't finish Brandon in time to present it to the committee, but the pattern is that it fal

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here today to talk about my research. I launched The Local News Research Project after I left daily news reporting and became a member of Ryerson's faculty back in 2007. I should preface my remarks by saying that I'm going to talk spec