CanWest News Service (CNS) provides high quality original content on the international and national topics and events. These news stories are then shared by all of the newspapers enabling increased coverage of events at a lower overall cost. CNS coordinates the activities and assignments of its team of staff journalists and freelance writers working in newspaper and interactive outlets. Eliminating duplication of editorial efforts allows for more efficient production of content. The content can then be distributed to FPinfomart or FPData Group as well as to the newspapers.
To maximize revenues derived from its content generation capabilities, content is sold to third party media and to CanWest which uses it in other media such as Global Television and The National Post. CNS also has a large editorial services operation that provides sports results, comics pagination and features to CanWest properties and commercial clients throughout North America, and produces TV Times, Canadas largest television listings and features supplement.