Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I totally agree. It's a media oligopoly. It's a grocery oligopoly. It's a telecom oligopoly. Break it up. I completely agree with that. At the same time, as I tried to point out in the last question, use the regulatory powers you have in order to control and dictate some of

Canadian Heritage committee  There are two points I would make in response to that question. The first is that if we're sitting here at the heritage committee deciding who's going to cover the drink tab of the national forum, I'm all for it. If you're going to have a collection of journalists, we would expe

Canadian Heritage committee  The second one is, obviously, regulatory. We have an oligopoly in telecommunications, and this comes with extreme regulatory pressure on existing highly profitable major telecommunications companies. Force them to spend their money on journalism as part of their broadcasting lice

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for having me at this committee. I'm a bit of a problematic creature and one of those persnickety digital first creators Sue was referencing. Just to follow up on Sue's comments, I agree with what she said, and I think people who are trying to fix these probl

Canadian Heritage committee  Professor, I would just point out that under the qualified journalism program, organizations like mine don't qualify, because, of course, we're “owner-owned”. We are owned by two people, and we produce our own content. Because we are the only two journalists working for our organ

Canadian Heritage committee  I am a small media organization. I don't want money through this program, and I don't want money through the government. I want to be able to be a self-sustaining business. I have to take some exception, because I think some of the witnesses here have misrepresented what I've sa

Canadian Heritage committee  I wish we could be a little bit more candid about what we're talking about. When we say that Google and Facebook are in competition with news media outlets, we're not in competition for content; we're in competition for advert revenue. That's why the news media's business model f

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. First, I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to speak. My name is Jen Gerson and I have worked in media for more than 15 years in newsrooms across the country, including at the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, the Calgary Herald and the Nation