Toronto-area Ethnic Newspapers and Canada's 2011 Federal Election: An Investigation of Content, Focus and Partisanship

Lindgren, April

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“…In many cases the coverage counters the underrepresentation or misrepresentation of immigrants and visible minorities in mainstream coverage (Houssein, 2013;Mahtani, 2001). Voters who read the ethnic press, for instance, are likely to find out more about in-group candidates in Canadian federal elections from their own ethnocultural news sources than they will from the mainstream media (Lindgren, 2014).…”

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Municipal Communication Strategies and Ethnic Media: A Settlement Service in Disguise

Lindgren¹

2023

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The Canadian Federation of Municipalities has declared cities the “unofficial welcome wagon” for new Canadians. Research suggests, however, that they embrace settlement and integration policies to varying degrees. While scholarly examinations of municipal policies include analyses of corporate communications strategies, efforts by city governments to reach residents through ethnocultural news media have received little attention. To address that gap, this study investigates why the suburban community of Brampton, Canada adopted one of the most proactive ethnic media strategies in the country in 2015 when, just a decade earlier, it was for the most part unresponsive to the needs of its burgeoning immigrant population. As a starting point, the case study uses the determinants of municipal responsiveness identified by Kristin R. Good (2009) in Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver. Employing a mixed methods approach, it concludes that rapid demographic change, the emergence of an activist political leadership, and efforts to reduce friction between newcomers and other residents influenced Brampton’s communications policy over time. The case study identifies challenges associated with adopting an ethnic media strategy, including issues related to translation and the relative lack of sophistication of some ethnic media outlets. Furthermore, it demonstrates that reaching out to ethnocultural communities via ethnic media requires more than just distributing news releases in English. Translation of these releases has the potential to increase municipal news coverage in ethnic media, the paper suggests, if only because it makes it easier for smaller news organizations to report on such matters

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Municipal Communication Strategies and Ethnic Media: A Settlement Service in Disguise

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2023

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“…Ces recherches soulignent l'importance de l'exclusion sociale et politique constatée, par exemple, dans l'ethnographie du public d'un contexte urbain (Clark 2014), dans l'analyse du contenu de la couverture journalistique de la pauvreté dans les grandes villes canadiennes (Richter et al 2011), dans les groupes de discussion sur les réactions émotionnelles aux reportages sur l'itinérance dans les grandes villes (Schneider 2014), et dans les analyses contextuelles des questions relatives aux réfugiés (Bradimore et Bauder 2011). L'argument sur la méconnaissance de premier niveau des médias vient s'ajouter aux récentes recherches sur l'utilisation des médias urbains par les groupes ethniques canadiens dont les sujets sont également demeurés à l'écart du public implicite de la presse grand public (Lindgren 2014), ainsi qu'à une analyse contextuelle de la pauvreté infantile dans la presse nationale au Canada et au Royaume-Uni (Redden 2014). On observe des tendances similaires dans les études sur les journaux américains traitant de la pauvreté (Kendall 2011 ;Fryberg et al 2012 ;Napoli et al 2015 ;Pew Research Center 2015).…”

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Tout en admettant que la pauvreté est abondamment couverte dans la presse grand public canadienne et américaine, le présent article soutient que du fait que le journalisme emploie une narration à la troisième personne, les acteurs des récits sont rarement reconnus comme faisant partie du « public implicite ». Ainsi, les plus démunis ne sont pas en mesure de dialoguer directement avec le journaliste, ce qui mène à une forme de méconnaissance de premier niveau de la part des communs urbains. Cet argument est appuyé par des exemples tirés d’une étude exhaustive de la couverture journalistique de quotidiens grand public canadiens et américains en 2010. Des suggestions sont formulées quant à la manière dont le passage de la troisième à la deuxième personne influe sur le public implicite et la culture professionnelle du journaliste. Une glose est présentée à titre d’introduction aux relations entre la communauté et les ressources matérielles qui constituent les communs urbains, à leur sphère d’information et au lien conceptuel entre les deux niveaux de reconnaissance qui orientent l’argument.

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“…This chapter does not thematize the relationship between journalists' approaches to disinformation and their organization type, gender or racialized status, or whether they report for dominant or ethnic minority audiences. We intend to do so in future work, as research suggests that all these factors influence political news judgment(Lindgren 2014;Tolley 2016).…”

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Confronting Disinformation: Journalists and the Conflict over Truth in #Elxn43

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MacLellan

2021

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(Note: This is a pre-print, not copy-edited, of a chapter for publication in: Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy, ed. by Holly Ann Garnett and Michael Pal. McGill-Queen’s University Press.) In the run-up to the 2019 federal election in Canada, experts and policymakers raised the possibility that foreign or domestic actors might use disinformation tactics during the campaign. This prompted Canadian journalists to give unprecedented attention to threats that online disinformation might pose to the information ecosystem and thus to electoral integrity. This chapter analyzes how Canadian journalists understood and responded to disinformation in the 2019 federal election campaign.Drawing on interviews with over 30 journalists, we find that while they held competing conceptions of disinformation, most associated it with digitally enabled techniques of media manipulation (e.g. the use of automated social media accounts known as “bots”) pursued by both traditional and newly prominent actors (including foreign states, partisan organizations and loose networks of domestic trolls). To address online disinformation, some journalism organizations developed new reporting approaches and teams, while many journalists and senior editors reflected on how longstanding reporting practices may or may not address this new challenge. We then investigate key challenges that journalists face in countering disinformation by examining three illustrative cases from the 2019 campaign: the alleged role of bots and foreign accounts in online discourse; the salacious rumours about incumbent prime minister Justin Trudeau pushed by foreign and domestic actors, including the U.S.-based website The Buffalo Chronicle; and the potential for leaks of illegally acquired material acquired through hacking operations.Reflecting on disinformation in #elxn43, journalists described three general challenges. Two are relatively new: how to identify novel and sophisticated online disinformation tactics, and how to address disinformation without amplifying its spread on social media. The third is a dilemma that journalists have long faced in election reporting: how to report on misleading claims in a context of intense partisan competition, when journalists themselves are being scrutinized as actors in the political fray.

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Toronto-area Ethnic Newspapers and Canada's 2011 Federal Election: An Investigation of Content, Focus and Partisanship

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Municipal Communication Strategies and Ethnic Media: A Settlement Service in Disguise

Municipal Communication Strategies and Ethnic Media: A Settlement Service in Disguise

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Confronting Disinformation: Journalists and the Conflict over Truth in #Elxn43

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