Digital steps offer renewed vitality for media serving Quebec’s English-speaking minority
Montreal – April 12, 2016
A series of pragmatic, cost-effective steps designed to rapidly help restore the vitality of news media serving the province’s English-language community was presented to federal Members of Parliament today by the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN).
The scope and size of the federal government’s Canadian Periodical Fund should be substantially enlarged to actively embrace community-based initiatives in new media and online-only media, said Walter Duszara, secretary of the QCGN’s Board of Directors. The Fund is currently focussed almost entirely on support mechanisms that benefit non-daily print periodicals and their offshoots, but recently took a modest initial step toward support for digital-only pilot projects.
