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About StudioX News

Canada’s Multilingual Digital News Network

StudioX News is an independent digital news network for Canada’s diaspora and newcomer communities. We publish Canada-first journalism — local and provincial news, immigration updates, community affairs and politics — in the languages those communities speak at home.

Today StudioX News publishes 18 editions: Canada news in English, an International (World) desk, and 16 language editions — Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Arabic, Persian, French and Spanish. More languages are planned (see below).

We are operated by StudioX Film and TV Corporation, headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia. Our Editor-in-Chief, Harnaik Singh Rathor, is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), RTDNA Canada, CPRS Vancouver, Canadian Freelance Union (Unifor), NEPMCC and BBAC.

Our Mission: To ensure every Canadian community — regardless of language, origin, or background — has access to accurate, timely, and culturally relevant news in their own language.

Who We Serve

Canada is home to one of the most diverse populations on earth. According to Statistics Canada, more than 7.7 million Canadians speak a non-official language at home. StudioX News exists to serve these communities with the same quality of journalism available in English and French — in their language, with their context, and with their stories at the centre.

Our roadmap covers Canada’s largest diaspora language communities (figures are Statistics Canada speaker counts, not StudioX readership):

Spanish1.17M speakers
Mandarin987K speakers
Punjabi942K speakers
Arabic838K speakers
Hindi761K speakers
Tagalog738K speakers
Cantonese725K speakers
Italian548K speakers
German419K speakers
Urdu415K speakers

Planned for future expansion: Italian, German, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Serbian, Ukrainian, Russian, Armenian, Swedish, Estonian, Turkish, Hebrew, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Nepali, Odia, Japanese, Indonesian, Swahili, Amharic, Somali, and Indigenous-language coverage including Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibwe. See every live and planned edition on our Languages page.

Our Editorial Model

StudioX News aims to serve all Canadian diaspora communities equally, without favouring any single ethnic, religious, or political group. It is an independent, founder-led newsroom: the Editor-in-Chief reports, edits and approves content across our language editions, supported by AI-assisted drafting and translation tools under our published Editorial Standards. Each edition has its own desk, which writes original stories in that language from official sources, and follows the same standards as our English newsroom.

Each language edition covers two core beats:

  • Canadian news — local, provincial, and federal stories relevant to that language community living in Canada, including immigration, settlement, politics, business, and community affairs.
  • Home country news — international coverage from the community’s country of origin, keeping newcomers connected to their roots.

Our Standards

StudioX News follows the ethics guidelines of the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Code of Journalistic Ethics of RTDNA Canada. We are committed to accuracy, fairness, independence, and transparency in all our reporting.

Every article published on StudioX News is reviewed before publication. We do not publish unverified claims, we correct errors promptly and transparently — see our Correction Policy and Corrections Log — and we clearly label opinion content as distinct from news reporting.

Human editorial judgment remains at the centre of our publishing process. Where AI-assisted tools are used in content preparation, all material is reviewed and approved by a human editor before publication.

Our Network

18 live editions, all published under one ISSN (3111-4717):

Our Parent Company

StudioX News is a division of StudioX Film and TV Corporation, a media company founded in 2024 by Harnaik Singh Rathor and headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia. The corporation holds Federal Corporation Number 1695863-0 and CRA Business Number 799111232RC0001, and a D-U-N-S Number of 243352215. Ownership and funding are set out on our Masthead.

Contact Us

View our full Masthead for editorial staff and organizational details.