Erin Millar

Erin Millar is CEO and editor-in-chief of Discourse Media and its co-founder. She has received multiple awards for journalism innovation, including being named 2015 Bob Carty Fellow by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Storyteller-in-Residence at Ashoka Canada, and an AmEx Emerging Innovator.

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Federal aid package won’t save small businesses from COVID-19 fallout

On Monday night, as businesses across the country ground to a halt, a group of dozens of women who own small businesses in communities across Canada gathered for a conference call to share support. We took turns …

How can the feds spend wisely on local journalism?

If you are struggling to hear the applause that greeted the federal government’s soupçon of support for Canadian journalism in last week’s federal budget — well, that’s what one hand clapping sounds like. No one …

News industry should feel full digital disruption

As news goes, the most noteworthy thing Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said about supporting Canada’s cultural industries last week was that the government has no interest in subsidizing unviable business models for journalism. Bravo. The newspaper …

Unfetter tax code to support quality journalism

Wither Canadian media? Well, if there are any copy editors still working, the first thing they would do upon reading that lead is question whether we mean “whither Canadian media?” The answer is that we mean …

What does Ottawa’s journalism plan mean for news innovation?

The federal government’s $595-million package to help news media, announced in the 2018 fall economic update, is a real opportunity that could catalyze growth and long-term sustainability for the industry. The key word here is could. …