Canadian Heritage committee  The principle, no matter where it is, is the same in terms of the mechanisms we're seeking and the ways in which we can support media, and we're going to continue to do this in creative ways in Canada. It points to each jurisdiction being very different, so when we hear of a ma

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. What we're seeking to do this year is enter into commercial agreements with news publishers that would see them set up as a service that would allow their publishing system, their publishing platform, to send links of articles that they publish on their websites direct

Canadian Heritage committee  We certainly appreciate that, and we have seen the challenges created in a world where the advertising market is shifting to different types of solutions. The interesting part to me is, when we look at examples of local news publishers like Village Media, which is, as Kevin point

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, they represent news in 14 communities that range in size from 50 to 150,000 people. The point I was trying to make, sir, is that the model they have built at Village Media is an interesting one that is probably replicable in more places, in that they have local classified

Canadian Heritage committee  I believe the list was probably disclosed in one of our blog posts, but we can certainly follow up with you directly and supply the committee with the full list.

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Waugh, the way we look at these investments is that they are a continuation of what we've been doing for several years. We can go back to 2017, at the beginning of these commitments, with the digital news innovation challenge that helps publishers like The Sprawl grow their p

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks, Kevin. One of our signature investments is the Facebook-Canadian Press news fellowship, which began in 2020 as a program of $1 million to create eight new local journalism positions across Canada. CP publishes the fellows' stories to its wire service, making the work ava

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. When we look at this question of value, it is a very complicated one. As Kevin said, there's the distribution value of Facebook putting content in front of people who are interested in that content. There's the referral value of sending them to the people at the publi

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. We are all aware that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the revenue pressures faced by news publishers. In response, we moved quickly to try to help. We announced a grant program for 85 Canadian local news publishers for emergency expenses associated with COVID-19

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chan. As my colleague just said, any amount of content can be published on Facebook. People and companies can publish as much or as little strategic content as they wish. Most of the time, they want to increase their audience and their distribution. In the case o

Canadian Heritage committee  Within their reporting suites, each publisher has a breakdown by gender, by age group, etc., so they can look at the analysis of who is frequenting their pages, who is clicking on the links to go to their own properties. That is probably where Mr. Stackhouse would have pulled t

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a reporting tool that we provide to them so that they can understand the audience that is interacting with them on Facebook, so that they can use that information in analysis or as part of their business planning as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't have any specific details of it. I know that there are constant efforts. There's a great philosophy of “test and learn” within Facebook, so what we see are the adaptations from day to day. Understanding how news is produced and the changes within that market as well is a