Faced with rising costs and falling income, Canadian news media are restructuring and experimenting with new content and business models. Podcast initiatives were developed and promoted through media partnerships, such as a true crime series by Postmedia with Antica Productions; a Toronto Star entrepreneurship podcast made available on Air Canada flights; and podcasts jointly commissioned by the BBC and CBC/Radio-Canada. Hebdos Québec, a group of 75 independent publications, acquired Réseau Sélect, an advertising network serving French-language weeklies. It says it will stop making news content available on any of its platforms in Canada if the act passes in its current form. The future of public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada became more polarised following the election of a new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2023 22:41 UTC