Media in Alberta

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Media in Alberta includes published, broadcast, and digital media originating in the Canadian province of Alberta.

Print media

Daily newspapers

In 2010, daily paid circulation for the largest Alberta-based newspapers were:[1]

Concentration and political leanings

Concentration of ownership

The Foundation for Democratic Advancement did an overview of media ownership in the course of a paper on media coverage of elections in 2012; this found that the majority of the daily newspaper market in Alberta in controlled by two companies

Rogers Media owned 14, and James A. Pattison owned nine. In television, the largest companies were Bell Media with four stations, Rogers with four, Shaw Media with three, and the CBC
with three (two English-language, one French).

Political bias

In 1937, the Social Credit government of William Aberhart passed the

Reference re Alberta Statutes case in the Supreme Court which ruled the act to be ultra vires
(unconstitutional). As well the Edmonton Journal won a special Pulitzer Prize for Press Freedom for fighting against the law, the only non-American newspaper ever to have done so.

The Foundation for Democratic Advancement’s study stated that the media coverage of the political parties in the 2012 election was biased, in their opinion, in that it focused overwhelmingly on the two supposed

77.3% of the popular vote
.

See also

By medium
By city

References

  1. ^ "FDA Media Study of the 2012 Alberta Provincial Election (Revised as". Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  2. ^ "FDA Media Study of the 2012 Alberta Provincial Election (Revised as". Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
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