CBC News and Radio-Canada Info have been recertified by the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI), announced the public broadcaster Thursday.
The certification is essentially a publicly visible mark that assures users that the news produced by the organization is trustworthy.
To get the certification, news organizations must pass external audits done by the Alliance for Audited Media.
The JTI was launched by Reporters Without Borders and its partners in 2018 to combat disinformation. CBC/Radio-Canada’s news services were the first Canadian broadcast media to get the certification.
“As it becomes more difficult to tell fact from fiction, standards like Reporters Without Borders’ Journalism Trust Initiative…
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By Connie Thiessen
Paramount’s free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service Pluto TV announced Wednesday it is debuting a string of FAST channels dedicated to news, including four from Canada’s public broadcaster.
FAST channels set to launch next month on Pluto TV in Canada, include CBC News Explore, CBC News Toronto, CBC News British Columbia and Radio-Canada Info. The service has also introduced Reuters FAST channel in Canada, the UK and the Nordics, while CNN International will be made available in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Austria and CNN Fast in UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain.
CNN Fast is a curated channel of short-form videos, featuring quick-paced, internationally- focused CNN content…
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By Connie Thiessen
More than 11 million Canadians tuned in to CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcast coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games over 12 days.
This year’s coverage included three live daily shows on CBC television, and more than 1,000 hours of live streaming content on CBC Gem, its dedicated Paris 2024 website, and CBC’s Paris 2024 app. Canada competed in 18 of the event’s 22 sports.
CBC’s Paris 2024 coverage marked the most coverage in Canada of a Paralympic Games to date, with the public broadcaster noting record audience increases across broadcast, digital and streaming, which it says illustrates Canadians’ increased interest in Paralympic competition.
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By Howard Law, author of Canada vs. California, and MediaPolicy.ca
Earlier this month Cartt published “C-11, CRTC, and destabilizing market-driven CanCon,” an opinion piece from Len St-Aubin.
Two years ago St-Aubin and I volleyed back and forth on the merits of the Online Streaming Act as it passed the House of Commons. I suppose the two grumpy old men are back at it again: St-Aubin’s recent column is an indictment of the current regulatory state of affairs and here I am responding.
For the sake of brevity and avoiding repetitious debate, I will…
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Canada’s public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada last week announced details of its coverage of the upcoming Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, promising more than 140 original hours of broadcast coverage, with an additional 2,000 hours of live streaming coverage available across its multiple platforms.
Viewers can tune in for CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games from Wednesday, Aug. 28 to Sunday, Sept. 8 in English on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC’s Paris 2024 website (cbc.ca/paris2024) and the CBC Paris 2024 app for Android and Continue Reading
CBC on Wednesday announced the streaming and broadcast premiere dates for its fall 2024 lineup of new and returning programming on CBC Gem and CBC TV, including more than 20 original series and specials from Canadian creators, producers and storytellers.
Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024, award-winning Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga’s docuseries The Knowing will premiere Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) on CBC and CBC Gem. Produced by Makwa Creative in association with CBC, the four-part series is adapted from Talaga’s book of the…
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Nearly four out of five anglophone households (78 per cent) and more than seven out of 10 francophone households (72 per cent) in Canada subscribe to at least one subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, according to a new report released last week from the Media Technology Monitor, a research product of CBC/Radio-Canada.
While Netflix remains the most popular SVOD service, its share has declined, dropping to 52 per cent from 59 per cent among anglophones and to 60 per cent from a peak of 72 per cent among francophones in the fall of 2022, according to the…
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By Howard Law, author of Canada vs. California, and MediaPolicy.ca
The controversial federal Digital Services Tax is back in the news after Google raised prices charged to its Canadian advertisers by 2.5 per cent last week.
The August 1 price hike stoked demands from some Canadian commentators that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unilaterally withdraw Ottawa’s three per cent DST on a range of digital services offered in Canada by the largest Big Tech companies including Google, Meta, and Uber. One estimate puts the new tax revenue at $1 billion flowing annually into federal coffers.
Freeland’s DST came into effect…
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CBC announced last week the participants selected for the second year of AccessCBC: A CBC Initiative for Creators with a Disability, a national program providing pre-development training, mentorship and financing support to Deaf and disabled creators.
Fifteen participants across seven projects have been selected for the scripted comedy/drama and kids streams. In addition, as part of the unscripted stream, production is underway on four short projects from the CBC Creator Network, and a short documentary from the first round of AccessCBC has advanced to the second phase of development,…
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CBC/Radio-Canada says its coverage of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on Friday was watched at least in part by more than 13.3 million Canadian viewers on CBC and Radio-Canada networks and broadcast partners TSN, Sportsnet and RDS, citing overnight audience data from Numeris.
In addition, 1.9 million streams were viewed across CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital platforms, including CBC Gem, ICI TOU.TV, CBC/Radio-Canada’s Paris 2024 websites (cbc.ca/paris2024 and radio-canada.ca/paris2024), the CBC Paris 2024 app for iOS and Continue Reading
