Electronic Media Monitoring Program

Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)'s Electronic Media Monitoring (EMM) Program provides a cost-efficient optional common service to assist departments and agencies meet their responsibilities to monitor and analyze the public environment as stated in the Directive on the Management of Communications.

The EMM Program offers government-wide right of access to electronic media sources to more than 100 eligible departments and agencies. This assists with identifying and tracking current and emerging issues, related to departmental policies, programs, services and initiatives.

The EMM Program negotiates with the content providers who hold exclusive distribution rights to the news content and provides copyright compliant access to approximately 50 electronic news sources. This includes newspapers, newswires and television transcripts, representing both English and French national and regional news sources from across Canada.

The EMM Program is part of the Government Information Services Sector within the Integrated Services Branch. Contract expenditures total approximately $6M annually, a portion of which is recovered from departments through cost-sharing agreements.