With the help of the Initiative in 2022-23, news organizations were able to hire or maintain more than 400 jobs for journalists, who covered issues and stories in nearly 1,500 underserved communities across Canada, including here at Bayfm.
It’s the type of good news announcement we like to hear at Bayfm. The federal government has renewed funding for the Local Journalism Initiative for the next three years with $58.8 million dollars. To protect the independence of the press, government will continue to work with not-for-profit organizations to administer this funding. With the help of the Initiative in 2022-23, news organizations were able to hire or maintain more than 400 jobs for journalists, who covered issues and stories in nearly 1,500 underserved communities across Canada, including here at Bayfm. Of this group, 60 journalists provided coverage in Indigenous communities, 84 in ethnocultural communities, 161 in official language minority communities and 11 in 2SLGBTQ+ communities. As news organizations innovate to reach audiences, the Government of Canada will continue its suite of measures to help independent, reliable journalists do their important work.
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