Ottawa outlines criteria for media funding package, introducing tax credits, non-profit status GlobePolitics
Budget experts and reporters look over copies of the 2019 federal budget booklet at a lockup session in Ottawa on March 19, 2019.The federal government is laying out specific criteria that journalism organizations will have to meet in order to qualify for its $595-million package supporting Canada’s struggling news media.
The government says a QCJO must be primarily engaged in the production of original news content and that it “must be primarily focused on matters of general interest and reports of current events, including coverage of democratic institutions and processes.” Excluded are publications focusing primarily on “industry-specific news, sports, recreation, arts, lifestyle or entertainment.”
The budget also forecasts that all but $5-million of the budgeted media package will be spent in the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2020, several months after this fall’s federal election. The media aid plan has drawn criticism from the Conservatives and some outspoken journalists, who have said government funding could threaten perceptions of the industry’s objectivity. “While a free press is a cornerstone of our society, it can only remain so when it is free of political influence,” Banff-Airdrie Conservative MP Blake Richards wrote in a December column for the Cochrane Times.
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