{"id":4172,"date":"2025-09-12T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:09:57","slug":"news-media-canada-and-community-media-coalition-welcome-confirmation-of-plans-for-2025-2027-local-journalism-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/news-media-canada-and-community-media-coalition-welcome-confirmation-of-plans-for-2025-2027-local-journalism-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"News Media Canada and Community Media Coalition welcome confirmation of plans for 2025-2027 Local Journalism Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 12, 2025 &#8211; OTTAWA, ON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News Media Canada and the Community Media Coalition, represented by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, are excited to continue to support local news in Canada. The two organizations yesterday welcomed their confirmation by the Minister of Canadian Heritage to serve as Initial Recipients for the 2025-2027 Local Journalism Initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News Media Canada and the Community Media Coalition are currently working together with Canadian Heritage to finalize the application process and materials. The 2025-2027 Initiative will see a realignment of mandates from the previous iteration of the program. This will streamline processes, reduce administrative costs, expedite reporting and ensure transparency in the program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Initial Recipients, the two organizations will be responsible for providing funds to specific segments of the news media industry as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Community Media Coalition, represented by the Community Radio Fund of Canada:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethnic media: newspapers, online news services, community radio stations and community television stations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English-language community radio stations outside of Qu\u00e9bec<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English-language community television stations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">French-language community television stations outside of Quebec<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous community radio stations and community television stations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News Media Canada:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English-language newspapers and online news services outside of Quebec<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">French-language newspapers and online news services in Quebec<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous newspapers and online news services<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A third organization, the Consortium of Official Language Minority Community Media, will serve official language minority news media across Canada, as well as French-language community radio and community television stations in Quebec.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2025-2027 version of the program also introduces the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/funding\/changing-narratives-fund.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changing Narratives Fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stream of the LJI. This component will be overseen by the Community Media Coalition and will provide support to the written press, community radio and television stations and online news services in hiring and training diverse journalists to increase their participation in the media sector at all career stages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Application forms and guidelines will be posted on the Initial Recipients\u2019 websites shortly. For the Initial Recipients\u2019 weblinks and contact information, as well as more information about the Local Journalism Initiative and Changing Narratives Fund, click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/funding\/local-journalism-initiative.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Local Journalism Initiative\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/funding\/local-journalism-initiative.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Journalism Initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was launched by the Government of Canada in 2019 to support the creation of original civic journalism that covers the diverse needs of underserved communities across Canada. To protect the independence of the press, the Government selects not-for-profit organizations representing different segments of the news industry to administer the Initiative.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information, please contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Community Media Coalition represented by the Community Radio Fund of Canada: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media inquiries: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:alex@crfc-fcrc.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alex@crfc-fcrc.ca<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Program inquiries: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:lji-ijl@crfc-fcrc.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lji-ijl@crfc-fcrc.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News Media Canada: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media inquiries: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:media@newsmediacanada.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media@newsmediacanada.ca<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Program inquiries: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:lji@newsmediacanada.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lji@newsmediacanada.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 12, 2025 &#8211; OTTAWA, ON News Media Canada and the Community Media Coalition, represented by the Community Radio Fund&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}