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Ottawa commissions project to track ‘news deserts’ in Canada

The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage. “Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory — a multi-phase, multi-year project that will ultimately measure the extent and spread of news deserts and areas of news poverty in Canada,” the department said in a December memo to the culture minister. The memo, obtained through access-to-information law, said the government is responding to stakeholder calls for better data and that the information would allow it to better target its policy…

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