Further on the topic of my last post, the Canadian Journalism Project, at J-Source.ca, tracked the number of media people covering the Olympics in Vancouver.
The estimated grand total: 10,800.
Number of athletes and officials at the games, according to Tourism Vancouver: 5,500
So, that’s almost two news media people for every athlete and official. If you’ve wondered about the extent of Olympic coverage, there’s your answer.
The Canadian English language media presence is an estimated 1,672, but that number, and the estimated grand total noted above, doesn’t include CBC, which hadn’t provided numbers to J-Source at time of writing.
About 1,400 people in the Canadian total are from CTV, which has official Olympic coverage rights.
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