News Media Canada (NMC), formerly Newspapers Canada, is a trade association for newspaper publishers in Canada. It was established in 2016 through the merger of the

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and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. NMC represents over 830 daily, weekly and community newspapers in every province and territory in Canada.

History

A February 2017

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/ref> On 22 May 2019, NMC was named as one of eight "Canadian organizations that will sit on a special advisory panel tasked with recommending news operations for participation in a $600 million" media bailout fund scheduled to last five years. The announcement was made by then-Finance Minister

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. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said that under the program, the media would be eligible for refundable tax credits, a non-refundable tax credit for subscriptions to Canadian digital news and access to charitable tax incentives for not-for-profit journalism. The CBC two days later published an op-ed by former

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editor Andrew Potter who called the "Liberals' bailout package... a toxic initiative." Among other points, he identified the NMC as "a newspaper industry lobby group" who had begged the government for three years.

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* {{official website, https://nmc-mic.ca/ Newspaper associations Trade associations based in Canada Lobbying organizations in Canada 2016 establishments in Canada