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BBTV Provides Content Management Solutions to the Canada Media Fund, Canada's Largest Media Content Funding Agency Supporting Canadian Content Creators – Financial Post
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BBTV provides the Encore+ YouTube channel with both its Channel Management and Rights Management solutions. Under Channel Management, BBTV directly supports the Encore+ YouTube channel strategy, operations, reporting and content development initiatives to stimulate demand and increase global discoverability for popular Canadian shows including Degrassi High, Due South, Big Wolf on Campus, Student Bodies, Edgemont, The Odyssey, Zoboomafoo, Street Legal and Danger Bay.
CMF also benefits from BBTV’s Rights Management solution, which manages fan uploaded copies of CMF funded content, putting CMF’s various clients back in control of their IP. Other enterprise media clients utilizing BBTV’s Content Management solution include the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Sony Pictures. Both are part of BBTV’s Plus Solutions that provide higher margins and enhanced value-adds for BBTV and its partners.
“BBTV is a proud Canadian business and we’re thrilled to be able to work with CMF to put a spotlight on fantastic Canadian content, and take their viewership to the next level,” comments Lewis Ball, VP Strategy, BBTV. “Content owners of all sizes need to ensure that they have a comprehensive solution that includes growing viewership and revenues for content as well as managing the fans who are uploading their IP. We offer a suite of end to end services to help content owners become more successful.”
In addition, the expanded deal sees BBTV collaborating closely with Encore+ to promote and market existing content; creating new and original trailers, and supporting a new suite of Encore+ original productions featuring talent interviews to enhance the public’s appreciation for iconic Canadian film and TV shows in English, French and by Indigenous creators.
BBTV also plays an instrumental role to further drive viewership, including optimization of audio, image and video for important Canadian films including Johnny Mnemonic, New Waterford Girl, The Snow Walker,The Corporation, Malarek, The Wars, My American Cousinand Manufacturing Consent.
“Encore+ is privileged to collaborate with Canada’s finest audiovisual talents: pioneers, trailblazers and new voices alike. We strive to deliver excellence at all levels as we promote their outstanding content to the world,” said Paulina Abarca-Cantin, Programming and Operations Lead for the Encore+ YouTube channel. “Encore+ is truly fortunate to count on BBTV’s creativity, innovative culture and proven expertise. BBTV has been at the heart of its success right from launch.”
Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what’s real and what’s fake or misleading online, experts say.
The rise of social media has led to the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, which is spread intentionally, said Dr. Ghayda Hassan, a clinical psychologist and the director of the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence.
“Because of the speed of access to information, cognitively, people do not have time to process and to validate the kind of information they receive, so there are a lot of biases that interfere,” said Hassan, who is also a UNESCO co-chair for the prevention of radicalization.
“The fact that information is often on social media propagated by individuals that we may like, that we may trust or that we may directly know, gives them more credibility,” she said in an interview.
The COVID-19 pandemic is stoking fear and fuelling social and economic instability, creating conditions that intensify conspiratorial thinking, she said, adding she’s concerned that young people are particularly vulnerable.
Hassan is calling for stronger standards for how social media companies manage content on their platforms and a national strategy and mandatory curriculums covering digital media literacy in schools.
“It has to become obligatory material, just as you teach math to kids.”
School curriculums in each province and territory have included media literacy for nearly 20 years, but the material largely hasn’t been updated to reflect how media has changed since the 1990s, said Matthew Johnson, the director of education for the Ottawa-based non-profit MediaSmarts.
“The model today is not of a distribution chain, but of a network that is functionally infinite,” he said. “In theory, anybody on YouTube can have as large an audience as a TV news network or a world leader.”
Tools and signals that may have worked on stories from traditional print and broadcast media in the past, such as bylines or photo credits, may not be as useful for authenticating information on social media.
Some of those signals or markers of reliability, such as a professional-looking website, may even be counterproductive, said Johnson.
“That’s often extremely misleading,” he said. “The people who intentionally spread misinformation or disinformation know that we look at that, and so they will put a lot of effort into making something that looks good.”
The extent to which media literacy is actually taught varies by province and territory, said Johnson. For example, B.C. has what he called an excellent digital literacy curriculum, but it’s not mandatory. In Ontario, where media literacy is part of the evaluated language arts curriculum, he said it receives the least classroom time among other components.
“We don’t have any good recent data about what teachers are actually teaching and what students are actually learning at a national level.”
MediaSmarts offers parents, teachers and students tips for authenticating information, from fact-checking tools to finding and verifying original sources and checking others to assess the veracity and intent of a story.
It draws on key concepts in media and digital media literacy, including that digital media has unexpected audiences, that online experiences are shaped by the social networks and search engines themselves, and that what we do online can have real-world impacts.
Joyce Grant is a freelance journalist and the co-founder of TeachingKidsNews.com, a website she describes as a transparent source of news for kids that also helps them understand how credible news is made and how to spot content that’s deceptive or misleading.
“Fake news, as it gets better, starts to better mimic journalism. So, really, what it comes down to now is critical thinking,” said Grant, who began delivering in-class media literacy workshops around a decade ago.
She aims to help youth recognize echo chambers or silos on social media and break out of them by seeking out diverse sources of information.
The goal is also a healthy skepticism that asks, “What seems off about this? What is missing? Where are the points of view? Why did this person write this article or post?” said Grant.
“All of a sudden the light comes on, and then, yeah, they’re all over it … nobody wants to be fooled, right?”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 11, 2020.
This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Facebook and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper reported on Friday, citing a police source.
Lai, an ardent critic of Beijing, would be the highest profile person charged under the sweeping new law imposed on the Chinese-ruled city in June.
He was due to appear in court on Saturday, according to Apple Daily, a popular tabloid known for its feisty and critical coverage of China and Hong Kong.
The security law, which punishes what Beijing broadly defines as secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in jail, has been condemned by the West and human rights groups as a tool to crush dissent in the semi-autonomous, Chinese-ruled city.
Authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing say it is vital to plug gaping holes in national security defences exposed by months of sometimes violent anti-government and anti-China protests that rocked the global financial hub over the last year.
“The goal is to hold Jimmy Lai, and shut Jimmy Lai up,” Mark Simon, an associate of Lai, told Reuters.
Hong Kong police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The publishing tycoon is one of the financial hub’s most prominent democracy activists, while his Next Media group is considered one of the key remaining bastions of media freedoms in Hong Kong.
Denied bail
Tensions between China and the United States have escalated in recent weeks as Washington accuses Beijing of using the security law to trample wide-ranging freedoms guaranteed when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Authorities have intensified a crackdown on opposition forces in the city, dismissing lawmakers from the legislature, conducting widespread arrests and jailing high-profile democracy activists such as Joshua Wong.
Lai was denied bail earlier this month following his arrest on a separate charge of fraud related to the lease of a building that houses his Apple Daily, an anti-government tabloid.
He was arrested in August when about 200 police officers swooped on his offices. Hong Kong police later said they had arrested nine men and one woman for suspected offences including “collusion with a foreign country/external elements to endanger national security, conspiracy to defraud” and others.
The tycoon had been a frequent visitor to Washington, where he has met officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to rally support for Hong Kong democracy, prompting Beijing to label him a “traitor.”
(Reuters) – British actress Barbara Windsor, known for her role as landlady Peggy Mitchell in the soap “EastEnders”, has died aged 83, British media reported on Friday, citing a statement from her husband.
“It is with deep sadness that I can confirm that my darling wife Barbara passed away at 8.35 pm on Thursday 10 December at a London Care Home”, Windsor’s husband Scott Mitchell said in a statement quoted by media.
“Her passing was from Alzheimer’s/Dementia and Barbara eventually died peacefully and I spent the last 7 days by her side,” the statement continued.
Windsor had been diagnosed with the disease in 2014 and had moved to a care home earlier this year.
She debuted as Peggy Mitchell on EastEnders in 1994, taking a sabbatical from the show for medical reasons in 2003, before returning as a series regular in 2005.
Windsor quit the long-running soap in 2009, saying she wanted to spend more time with her husband whom she had married in 2000.
The actress said at the time that the role as landlady Peggy Mitchell, which saw her famously shouting “Get outta my pub” at startled locals, had changed her life.
Before EastEnders, Windsor had been mostly known as a comedy actress. She made her film acting debut in “The Belles of St Trinian’s” in 1954 and shot to prominence with the innuendo-laden “Carry On” series in the 1960s and 70s.
“It was not the ending that Barbara or anyone else living with this very cruel disease deserves,” her husband said after she passed away.
“I will always be immensely proud of Barbara’s courage, dignity and generosity dealing with her own illness and still trying to help others by raising awareness for as long as she could,” he added.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Karishma Singh)
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