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The City of Moose Jaw is working on its first all-encompassing communications policy, but the draft presented to the city’s executive committee raised questions of what counts as legitimate media and who should be considered a reporter.

The proposed policy was presented to the executive committee on June 24 by the city’s communications manager Craig Hemingway. He also fielded questions from Mayor Fraser Tolmie and councillors, which quickly centred on the section on media relations and what was included under “media.”

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With the closure of the city’s only daily newspaper — the Moose Jaw Times-Herald — in December 2017, a couple of independently run news blogs popped up to fill the hole. With these independent news blogs and any other independent news sites that could start in the future in mind, Tolmie asked some very pointed questions.

“What’s legitimate news and what is blogging?” he asked in the meeting. He expressed concern for how it can be tougher to hold bloggers to account if they publish something with incorrect information.