Won’t Detail Cash For News

Managers of an election fund that paid cash for news coverage will not disclose how much was given individual applicants or why. Known recipients include The Logic, a Toronto website whose publisher David Skok called subsidies “an insult to the audience” before soliciting more than $1.5 million in federal funding: “It will have a direct impact on the daily assigning and editing of a journalism product.”

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