News Media Canada
Canadian trade association
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News Media Canada (NMC), formerly Newspapers Canada, is a trade association for newspaper publishers in Canada. It was established in 2016 through the merger of the Canadian Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.
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- Canadian Newspaper Association;
- Canadian Community Newspapers Association
| Médias d'info Canada | |
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| Abbreviation | NMC, MIC |
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| Established | 2016 |
| Merger of |
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| Website | nmc-mic |
Formerly called | Newspapers Canada |
NMC represents over 830 daily, weekly and community newspapers in every province and territory in Canada.
History
A February 2017 Canadian Press article reported the organization's name as having been changed to News Media Canada.[1]
On 22 May 2019, NMC was named as one of eight "Canadian organizations that will sit on a special advisory panel tasked with recommending news operations for participation in a $600 million" media bailout fund scheduled to last five years. The announcement was made by then-Finance Minister Bill Morneau. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said that under the program, the media would be eligible for refundable tax credits, a non-refundable tax credit for subscriptions to Canadian digital news and access to charitable tax incentives for not-for-profit journalism.[2] The CBC two days later published an op-ed by former Ottawa Citizen editor Andrew Potter who called the "Liberals' bailout package... a toxic initiative." Among other points, he identified the NMC as "a newspaper industry lobby group" who had begged the government for three years.[3]