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Supporting B.C. journalism helps provide a core pillar in defence of democracy

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B.C. Lieutenant Lieutenant’s Lieutenant General says newsrooms where they work are shrinking, withering and dying.

Toronto Metropolitan University's school of journalism estimates the recent loss of at least 5,000 reporting, editing, producing and photo journalism jobs recently in Canada .

As more seasoned journalists are shown the door, institutional knowledge and historical context.

Shachi Kurl is president of the Angus Reid Institute , a non-partisan, non-profit polling organization, and chair of the Jack Webster Foundation which promotes and honours excellence in B.C. journalism.

Kurl: "I don't believe in the media, it's the media".

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English

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