Media Ecosystem Observatory issues report on the first year of Meta’s news ban in Canada

Canadian news media engagement is down, less news is being consumed, and many Canadians do not even realize the shift has occurred. MEO’s Information Ecosystem Brief, “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta’s News Ban in Canada”, looks at what happened when Meta banned news for users in Canada.

Social media for news is dead

Some great stuff here from Oriol Salvador, the first in his series collecting his “thoughts after attending the 3-day Transformation Boost course at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, in New York City” earlier this month. This is well worth a read, and this is what’s jumping out at me at least initially: … Read more

The greatest knockout match in major-tournament football since 1982

The greatest knockout match in major-tournament football since 1982 The Americans – who have never failed to reach the final of the Olympic Games – duly kept their record intact. But only after coming from behind three times. Canada’s indomitable Christine Sinclair helped herself to a hat-trick – one of the great individual performances of … Read more