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‘The Paper’ is a spinoff of ‘The Office,’ with the character Oscar Martinez now employed at the Toledo Truth-Teller in Toledo, Ohio. (NBC Universal)

What The Paper reveals about local news and journalism today

The new sitcom ‘The Paper’ highlights the challenges of local journalism at a moment when real-world newsrooms are vanishing across North America.
A screenshot from ABC’s live reporting on the Columbia University pro-Palestinian protest on April 25, 2024, shows the ‘campus unrest crackdown.’ Vanderbilt Television News Archive

From the ’60s till now, TV news coverage of large‑scale university protests doesn’t look so different

While people rely less on TV for their daily news than they used to, it remains influential − and the TV storytelling about student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and more can shift opinions.
Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is trying to get the dominant digital platforms to negotiate mutually-acceptable agreements with Canada’s online news outlets. (Shutterstock)

Why Ottawa’s efforts to get Google and Facebook to pay for news content misses the mark

There’s no evidence that news outlets are worse off because of Google, Facebook and other aggregators. If anything, evidence shows that, overall, news outlets would be in worse shape without them.

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