In this St. Catharines Standard article, NC School of Media Studies professor Charles Kopun weighs in on the negative impact that technology companies like Facebook and Google have on local news services and the journalism industry’s business model.
The article ran in all three of Niagara’s daily newspapers (Niagara Falls Review, St. Catharines Standard, Welland Tribune) a day after each outlet published blank front pages as part of a News Media Canada campaign, which stressed the importance of local news sources and their right for proper compensation from larger organizations.
Read the February 5 article in the St. Catharines Standard here.
