{"id":157301,"date":"2021-01-18T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/independent-canadian-media-outlets-are-cropping-up-and-taking-off\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:00:16","slug":"independent-canadian-media-outlets-are-cropping-up-and-taking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/independent-canadian-media-outlets-are-cropping-up-and-taking-off\/","title":{"rendered":"#Independent Canadian media outlets are cropping up and taking off"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Independent Canadian media<\/a> outlets are cropping up and taking off<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Media institutions rely on decades of built-up trust whereas these entrepreneurs hustle to prove their mettle while developing intimate connections with readers\n <\/div>\n
\n \u2018The new news<\/a>makers\u2019 are No. 41 on the 2021 Maclean\u2019s Power List, a ranking of 50 influential Canadians.\u00a0Click here to see the full list.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

San Grewal remembers covering Ontario\u2019s sprawling \u201c905\u201d region with a Toronto Star<\/em> team that was more than a dozen journalists strong. When he left in 2017, the newspaper was in steady decline and Grewal was its only full-time writer on that massive regional beat. In the city of Brampton, he saw a large news desert thirsting for dogged, impactful journalistic attention. So, on the heels of Patrick Brown\u2019s controversial run for mayor of the city, Grewal launched the Brampton-focused digital news site The Pointer, <\/em>and within two weeks had reached his first-year goal for paid subscribers. His long-term target is 15,000 and, while he isn\u2019t there yet, Grewal notes that a mere 1,000 people paying $10 a month would let a news start-up pull in $120,000 annually. In Peel Region, where Brampton is located, there are more than one million potential customers. \u201cPeople start to notice pretty quickly: wow, no one\u2019s covering city hall, our education system, the policing situation, like these guys are,\u201d says Grewal, who has expanded to cover neighbouring Mississauga and hopes to keep going.<\/p>\n

THE POWER LIST: See the full ranking of 50 notable Canadians<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While traditional newspapers and private broadcasters continue their long spirals of ad-revenue decline and newsroom shrinkage, the good-news stories from the media world tend to be independent (and mostly online) outlets that have sprung up in the last few years. Calgary\u2019s The Sprawl <\/em>and the Halifax Examiner<\/em> both started as one-person operations that have added stables of paid freelancers. When Maureen Googoo\u2019s Atlantic Indigenous site Ku\u2019ku\u2019kwes News<\/em> covered last fall\u2019s Mi\u2019kmaw fishing rights tensions, her crowdfunding skyrocketed and her website repeatedly crashed from heavy traffic.<\/p>\n

A few have found success at the national level. The environmentally oriented National Observer<\/em> and The Narwhal<\/em> have amassed tidy collections of journalism awards, going up against established publications. Canadaland<\/em> has done agenda-setting work on media controversies and WE Charity; The Logic<\/em> has produced the same on the tech sector. As the big guys get little, many of the little ones are getting bigger.<\/p>\n

Their revenue models vary\u2014some rely on crowdfunding, some on subscribers, some on investors or philanthropic foundation backing. A few make advertising money, and others receive the same government support that mainstream players now do. As digital operations, they all benefit from a lower cost structure than outlets that go to print or the airwaves, so they need less income to thrive\u2014or at least survive. Media institutions lean on (or try to shore up) decades of built-up trust, whereas these entrepreneurs hustle to prove their mettle, while developing intimate connections with readers and podcast listeners willing to pay for a spotlight on their underserved region or niche interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hear a lot about what\u2019s going wrong in the Canadian media landscape, but there\u2019s a lot that\u2019s going right, too,\u201d says Emma Gilchrist, editor-in-chief of The Narwhal<\/em>, an online magazine whose reader \u201cmemberships\u201d and organizational donors have helped it trip<\/a>le its revenue since its launch in 2018. (It now boasts a full-time staff of 11.) In December, she helped start an independent media advocacy group called Press Forward. Its tag line? \u201cThe future of Canadian journalism.\u201d
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