{"id":24236,"date":"2023-09-05T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24236"},"modified":"2023-08-29T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:38:47","slug":"student-editors-letter-bill-c-ya-later-canadian-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/09\/05\/student-editors-letter-bill-c-ya-later-canadian-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor’s Letter<\/em>: Bill C-ya later Canadian news"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I entered Camosun College bright eyed and bushy tailed I wasn\u2019t sure what career I wanted to pursue. During my first semester in the Digital Production, Writing and Design program I was quickly drawn to journalism. I thoroughly enjoyed my journalism class and was volunteering for Nexus<\/i>, so my route to becoming a journalist felt like a natural progression. Although a career in journalism seemed shaky at best\u2014with mass layoffs and consistently dipping revenue\u2014I still felt a glimmer of hope that I could make it work. After all, effective reporting is a necessity in keeping Canadians informed.<\/p>\n

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This story originally appeared in our September 5, 2023 issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My optimism has been slowly crushed over time but the cherry on top was Bill C-18 (the Online News Act) that was made into law in June. Bill C-18 won\u2019t just impact prospective journalism students\u2014it\u2019s detrimental to all Canadians as all news has now been completely wiped from Facebook and Instagram for anyone in Canada. By the time this issue comes out, Canadian news will not be available on Google searches either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, why is this happening? Essentially, the Canadian government created this bill in hopes that tech giants would negotiate individual deals with Canadian news organizations and compensate them whenever their content is used. This backfired as Meta and Google\u2019s response was to simply block news content from being shared or searched instead of having to pay. Which makes sense: why would large tech companies throw money at Canadian news organizations when it doesn\u2019t greatly benefit them to do so?<\/p>\n

The federal government has now ceased its advertising on Instagram and Facebook but, financially, it doesn\u2019t seem to have the companies shaking in their boots. While I don\u2019t love these gluttonous tech giants, I think there must\u2019ve been a better way to go about this. I\u2019m shocked and disappointed that the government didn\u2019t have the foresight to see how this would harm Canadian media before pushing this bill into law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This has done more than just squander one student\u2019s journalism dreams\u2014it\u2019s put up a roadblock between Canadians and vital news. Younger generations don\u2019t flock to Twitter the way they do Instagram. Canadians will still be able to visit their trusted news sites but it would be smart to start subscribing to newsletters or downloading news apps (like ours) to stay informed.<\/p>\n

On a personal note, I loved sharing stories from Nexus<\/i> on Instagram and if I had to guess, our readership will most likely be impacted. This also sucks for students who use our Instagram or Facebook to stay informed on student-based issues, or artists whose shows, galleries, and concerts we report on. I imagine that Bill C-18 will reduce readership for all news organizations, jeopardizing the way we share news with each other along the way. We are living in a tumultuous world where communication is an extremely powerful tool; it\u2019s disheartening to see the powers that be leaving us Canadians in the dark.<\/p>\n

Jordyn Haukaas, student editor
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When I entered Camosun College bright eyed and bushy tailed I wasn\u2019t sure what career I wanted to pursue. During my first semester in the Digital Production, Writing and Design program I was quickly drawn to journalism. I thoroughly enjoyed my journalism class and was volunteering for Nexus, so my route to becoming a journalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-september-5-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24237,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions\/24237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}