While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Jessica Johnson.
Over the last year, public debate about the continued existence of the CBC/Radio-Canada has mostly focused on content: whether it’s good, whether it’s relevant, whether enough of us watch it. But among the many reasons that about 100 liberal democracies worldwide have public media services, there are four fundamental factors with relevance for Canada: to counter misinformation/disinformation; to anchor electoral...
When the Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy at McGill University first asked me to lead a national research project about the CBC/Radio-Canada, I worried it would appeal only to media scholars and “Save the CBC” types. But a year later, it seems everyone is talking about the CBC, even the CBC itself — even if it’s not clear what’s...