The last 16 years have not been kind to local news outlets in Canada. We created a new dataset which tracks the 2,900 local news outlets in Canada whether radio, TV and print (whether newspaper or online), and the changes in those outlets back to 2008.
For the 45 cities in Canada with more than 140,000 people and all capital cities, we’ve created a news deprivation index to see if local news is keeping up to population growth.
Find out how your city fits into the bigger picture in the table below. You can also read the report to learn more about the health of news media in Canada.
