Royal Commission on Newspapers explained
The Royal Commission on Newspapers, popularly known as the Kent Commission, was a Canadian Royal Commission chaired by Tom Kent. It was created in 1980 in response to growing concerns over concentration of media ownership in Canada. The Commission's final report was delivered in 1981.[1]
Much of the impetus for the creation of the commission was the virtually simultaneous closure, on August 26–27, 1980, of two major daily newspapers: the Ottawa Journal (owned by the Thomson Corporation) and the Winnipeg Tribune (owned by Southam Inc.). These closures gave each chain a monopoly in the two markets, Southam with the Ottawa Citizen and Thomson with the Winnipeg Free Press. The resulting allegations of collusion prompted the Canadian government to launch the Kent Commission.
Bibliography
- Book: Canada.
. Available from Canadian Govt. Pub. Centre Supply and Services Canada. 978-0-660-10954-1. Royal Commission on Newspapers.. Hull Que.. 1981.
- Creery. Tim. Spring 1984. Out of Commission:Why the Kent recommendations have been trashed. An insider's report. Ryerson Review of Journalism. April 13, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120320171230/http://rrj.ca/m3557/. March 20, 2012 . 0838-0651.
- Keshen . Richard . Kent . Macaskill . 2000 . I Told You So": Newspaper Ownership in Canada and the Kent Commission Twenty Years Later . American Review of Canadian Studies . 30 . 3 . 10.1080/02722010009481056 . 0272-2011.
- Kent . Tom . Thomas_Worrall_Kent . October 2002 . Concentration with Convergence-Goodbye, Freedom of the Press . Policy Options . July 27, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071021192115/http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/oct02/kent.pdf . October 21, 2007 . 23 . 7 . 0226-5893.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Concentration of Newspaper Ownership . June 1, 2020 . Canadian Heritage website .
