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What changes when we start with audience? Annelise Larson examines how people find stories and what makes them care enough to stay, connecting audience relationships with the wider questions facing screen media and cultural policy.

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The New Audiovisual Panel Is a Vital Step, But We’re Still Building Policy for a System That No Longer Exists

Canada is modernizing its screen institutions, but the bigger challenge is modernizing the assumptions underneath them. Audience Reality Check #1 explores why future-ready policy must bridge legacy systems, digital creators, and the real ways audiences are built today.