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Manifesto
From: The Tangled Garden
$3.30
Summarizes why Canada’s media industry is at a crisis and why, absent intervention, remaining major media are likely to shut down. Canadian media institutions like Postmedia, the Toronto Star’s national newspaper network, CTV and Corus, are in danger of collapse. Offers a blueprint for how the Canadian government can protect domestic media and cultural industries, often using European precedents, and ensure an ongoing robust Canadian presence in the media and cultural industries.
Contributors
Richard Stursberg
Richard Stursberg is a leading expert on Canadian media and culture, and an experienced cultural executive. He has served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Culture and Broadcasting in the federal government, president of the Canadian Cable Television Association, President of Starchoice and Cancom, chairman of the Canadian Television Fund, executive director of Telefilm Canada, and head of English language services at the CBC. He has been a board member of the Canadian Film Centre and the Banff Television Festival. His book on his experience at the CBC, The Tower of Babble, was named one of the best books of 2012 by the Globe and Mail. He currently advises various Canadian media companies and sits on the boards of Hollywood Suite and Digital Media at the Crossroads. He lectures at the Ryerson/York graduate program on media policy and is the President of PEN Canada. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
