Postmedia, the country's biggest newspaper chain, which runs local papers across Canada, is burdened by crushing debt. And it isn't just newspapers that are in trouble: on Tuesday, there were reports that Global's award-winning current affairs program 16X9 had been cancelled, its investigative team let go, and that BuzzFeed Canada was shuttering its Ottawa bureau.

The federal government is hosting a series of roundtables to talk about stepping in to help struggling journalists.

If they want to see how bad it's gotten, they should fire up a new interactive map displaying which areas are underserved by the fourth estate, a visualization of what's been lost and a way for communities to track what's still there.