Over the past 25 years, the Canadian news market has experienced many exogenous trends similar to those in the United States — rapid advances and adoption of digital technology and platforms, a decline in advertising revenue, and significant contractions at community newspapers through layoffs and closures. And, as we’re seeing in the U.S., local independent media is trying to fill these gaps and better serve audiences who have often been overlooked.
While we still need more research into Canada’s burgeoning local independent media ecosystem, with help from a partnership with the Google News Initiative, LION has started this work by compiling a list of 270 publications that are independent, digitally dominant and serving a geographically-based community or single-subject topic. We’ve added these Canadian publications to our Project Oasis database, and anticipate updating this list as we identify more.
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