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Huynh said commercial outlets that rely on advertising are a "dying business model" and the philanthropic model is just one example of how to innovate funding sources.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caIts budget has grown steadily from about $150,000 when they started to $500,000.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.casaid anyone interesting in joining the local news landscape is going to have to come with multiple sources of revenue to stay alive.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.ca"So, instead of always defining them geographically, we look at communities of interest too, and try to sort of target people that way."
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caHe said a "communication gap" now makes it more difficult to get information to citizens, particularly if they are not on social media.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caleaving a large corner of northeast B.C. without a local paper.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.ca"But the end of those subsidies, most of them have been phased out, and the failure of advertising to pick up, I think, accounts for what we're seeing now."
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.ca215 new local news outlets launched in 152 communities. Just one of those came in 2023.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caThey are now part of the 516 local radio, TV, print and online news operationsshuttered in 345 communities across Canada since 2008
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.cabetween Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, this year, 36 local news outlets closed in Canada. Twenty-nine were community newspapers and seven were privately-owned radio stations.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caoverall trust in news by Canadians sat at 40 per cent, while 11 per cent said they pay for online news.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caIt's part of a steady decline of local news outlets in Canada coming at the same time that Canadians say they have less trust in media and are less willing to pay for their news.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.ca"That's not sexy, but sometimes it's a big, you know, scandal that erupts and if nobody's in there to cover all of the boring stuff, then you're going to miss everything."
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.cabecause Kamloops This Week paid a journalist to cover the comings and goings of the regional district, the kind of resources that have been slowly stripped away from many local outlets
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.cathe newspaper's stories uncovered questionable spending at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, including a $500,000 retirement payout for a chief administrative officer and lavish spending at steak houses and champagne rooms.
'A front row to our funeral': Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023 | National News | thecanadianpressnews.caRather, this is a gentle reminder that people can thrive doing the hard stuff, and we can build each other up without fear that we’ll sabotage prospects for bolder change. That’s a world that brings me hope.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxWe can recognize that for millions of women, raising children has been a central source of identity and meaning, and we can name this without fear that it will somehow unravel decades of feminist progress, or that we’ll risk empowering “tradwives” for saying what countless people experience as wonderful and true.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“Being alone is hard, to be sure, but it’s also deceptively easy — it requires nothing of us,” she writes. “People, on the other hand, challenge us. They infuse our life with stakes.”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxIt’s not always easy to see, but things are changing, and can change further. We’re not glossing over anything by making that clear.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“We pay lip service to women’s empowerment but what we don’t tell them is, ‘Fuck the rules, you don’t have to obey the rules,’” she said. “We need to tell more women to throw the standards out the window.”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“Good fathers tend to judge themselves less harshly, bring less anguished perfectionism to parenting their children…and…more aggressively protect their free time,”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxSometimes ceding control of parenting or housework can be difficult for moms, even as they’re overwhelmed and want more help. Like men, many women have internalized ideas that they’re the ones most qualified in the domestic arena. I
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxHirshman told me she sees too many young women who believe their heterosexual marriages can be “power-free zones” that do not require ongoing bargaining. “That’s completely unrealistic and delusional,” Hirshman said. “Freedom is something women need to enforce every day.”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxThe concern is understandable, but we can’t ignore that it’s domestic inequality between partners — or the perception of it — that drives much of a mother’s emotional and romantic dissatisfaction, according to research.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“Why should the patriarchal workplace be bulldozed and the patriarchal family left untouched?”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxhough Warner acknowledged that fathers who skirted domestic duties contributed to maternal stress, she dismissed the idea that getting men to do more was plausible, calling it “too late” and “largely a lost cause” for those in her Gen X cohort.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxFor those raising children in heterosexual relationships, it can be easier in many ways to blame the state for failing to provide certain support than it is to hold your only partner to account.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“It was important to women that their kids felt equally connected to and reliant upon both parents,” Collins observed, noting that the parenting strategies deployed by Swedish mothers partnered with men looked similar to those used by gay and lesbian parents in the US.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxThose ideas are rooted in the same thinking that motivated reversing Roe v. Wade, and that fuels efforts to deny gender-nonconforming people health care — the belief that such social inequality is natural and right.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxand how the strength required to reject certain pressures of modern motherhood comes from the same wellspring as those rejecting the gender binary altogether.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxIt’s not lost on me that my time thinking about motherhood anxiety has overlapped with the most aggressive attacks on abortion and transgender rights this country has ever seen.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxaving a child is a gendered expectation in its own right, but it comes on top of a web of pressures that already feel quite overwhelming for most women to manage in their 20s and 30s.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“It didn’t occur to me back then,” she wrote, “that the refusal to feel guilt was a trait that could be cultivated, like patience or good manners or kindness.”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxQuindlen responds that she “doesn’t do guilt.”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“I think if you hear a mom who says, ‘Well, I’m not stressed and life is good,’ that in general people say ‘Oh, my god, what is the matter with her?’”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxStudying what families highlight in their annual holiday cards, Burnett noticed how conveying how busy one’s life was had become something of a badge of honor.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxBut it’s clear that the culture fueling mom dread would not disappear simply by establishing better social assistance programs. Our culture’s valorization of busyness, of productivity, of optimizing, would still be here.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“Even if I’m not walking on money, I don’t need to be rich to feel rich... I believe in using a more radical approach, saying, ‘Yes, it’s hard, but it’s also beautiful.’”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxif joyful motherhood or equitable parenting is seen as a rare accomplishment these days, then, like many other small and large achievements, women learn to keep it to themselves.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxLeslie Bennetts, a veteran journalist and author of 2007’s The Feminine Mistake, told me. In the book, Bennetts, now 74, observed that the mainstream media had long “harped endlessly on the downside” of juggling motherhood and work and rarely explored the rewards.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxSome also worried that betraying too much enthusiasm for child-rearing could ossify essentialist tropes or detract from larger feminist goals.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxI was startled by the number who sheepishly admitted, and only after being pressed, that they had pretty equitable arrangements with their partners, and even loved being moms, but were unlikely to say any of that publicly.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxFor example, most parenting choices you make are not very high-stakes at all. It’s not a huge deal whether you breastfeed your child if you live in an area with decent water quality. Large-scale longitudinal research has found that quality of time spent with children matters vastly more
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxWe know that mothers spend nearly twice as much time on daily child care activities as moms did 60 years ago, even though moms are far more likely now to be working outside the home.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox“It’s not in people’s heads. With student loans, the cost of child care and housing payments … this is really the first generation who go to public schools and still end up massively in debt.”
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxWatching these videos, we can contemplate the ease of such frictionless fantasies, that life would be better with no stressful commitments, or, in the case of tradwives, that throwing children into the mix of life won’t make things more challenging.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxis something of a balm to the nagging questions that vex young women.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxyoung millennials like me were reminded relentlessly of the harms, such as lower wages and higher health costs, that accompany spells of long-term unemployment.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Voxbut when the Great Recession hit, and millions encountered new bouts of financial insecurity, most women who’d left their jobs years earlier to raise kids found far more difficulty rejoining the workforce than they anticipated.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - VoxStill, there’s something nice about these women’s rather untortured commitment to the people they love. It’s refreshing to see people enjoying caring for their family — even if, yes, we ought to remain vigilant about ulterior motives.
Why millennials are dreading becoming mothers - Vox