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Christopher Waddell is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

March 25, 2019

A subsidy without a clear purpose doesn’t move the Canadian news industry forward

“It is obviously designed to assist traditional, general interest newspapers, but to do what? Keep them on life support and then what?”

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Waddell, Christopher. "A subsidy without a clear purpose doesn’t move the Canadian news industry forward." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Mar. 2019. Web. 21 May. 2019.

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Waddell, C. (2019, Mar. 25). A subsidy without a clear purpose doesn’t move the Canadian news industry forward. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 21, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/a-subsidy-without-a-clear-purpose-doesnt-move-the-canadian-news-industry-forward/

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Waddell, Christopher. "A subsidy without a clear purpose doesn’t move the Canadian news industry forward." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 25, 2019. Accessed May 21, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/a-subsidy-without-a-clear-purpose-doesnt-move-the-canadian-news-industry-forward/.

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