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Author: Millicent McKay, Ernesto Carranza

Each week two consumers of news Millicent McKay and Ernesto Carranza will visit headlines from local (P.E.I.), national (Canada) and International news outlets and tell you about what they think about news coverage from different outlets, the benefits of sources and telling a story, chatting with industry players and more.
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Episode 5: Support local journalism and equal representation in newsrooms
Episode 5
Sunday, 5 July, 2020

Hey listeners! This week Ernesto and Millee talk about the importance of supporting local, community journalism and how vital it is to have proper representation of those communities in newsrooms. LINKS: Postmedia closing papers: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/postmedia-manitoba-papers-closing-1.5547793 Papers closing over 10 years: https://j-source.ca/article/over-250-canadian-news-media-outlets-have-closed-in-the-last-ten-years/ Can the media survive COVID-19: https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/05/06/will-canadas-media-survive-the-pandemic-fifty-papers-have-closed-in-just-the-last-six-weeks.html Imani Walker and Wendy Mesley: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5629414 Christine Genier, host of Yukon Morning, quit after calling for change live on air: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5616241 QUICK CORRECTIONS: By the time this podcast was released, five new cases of COVID-19 were found on PEI. These are said to have no connection with the Atlantic Bubble that opened on July 3.