Our fantastic Civic Journalist for Ashcroft and Cache Creek has been providing local news coverage for the last 8 months. Once the pandemic hit and everyone was in lock down, our service became more important than ever before. We were the place that our community could turn to for timely, local information about what was happening. From business closures and re-openings to what our local leaders on Council, in Parliament and the Legislative Assembly are up to, and even the latest health and safety information including COVID-19 in British Columbia. The population of Ashcroft and Cache Creek is about 2,500 people, and we have an average of 1,300 people viewing our twice weekly show. We’ve had comments from people who don’t live in our area that they don’t know what is going on in their own communities, but know everything about Ashcroft and Cache Creek.
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LJI Impact is the section of commediaportal.ca where the journalists and their organizations participating in CACTUS' Local Journalism Initiative can share their greatest successes.
Through the written stories, photos and videos you see in the LJI Impact section, you'll be able to read first hand accounts about how the presence of a community journalist is making a difference in communities across Canada through the Local Journalism Initiative and the Community Media Portal.
The Community Media Portal is a gateway to the audio-visual media created by community media centres across Canada. These include traditional community TV and radio stations, as well as online and new media production centres.
Community media are not-for-profit production hubs owned and operated by the communities they serve, established both to provide local content and reflection for their communities, as well as media training and access for ordinary citizens to the latest tools of media production, whether traditional TV and radio, social and online media, virtual reality, augmented reality or video games.
The Community Media Portal has been funded by the Local Journalism Initiative (the LJI) of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and administered by the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) in association with the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec (the Fédération). Under the LJI, over 100 journalists have been placed in underserved communities and asked to produce civic content that underpins Canadian democratic life.


