North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2012

• 51 - Information and cultural industries
• 511 - Publishing industries (except internet)
• 5111 - Newspaper, periodical, book and directory publishers
• 51111 - Newspaper publishers

511110 - Newspaper publishers^US

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in carrying out operations necessary for producing and distributing newspapers, including gathering news; writing news columns, feature stories and editorials; and selling and preparing advertisements. These establishments may publish newspapers in print or electronic form.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • newspapers, publishing (except exclusively on Internet)
  • newspapers, publishing and printing

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • printing, but not publishing, newspapers (See 32311 Printing)
  • supplying information, such as news, reports and pictures, to the news media (See 519110 News syndicates)
  • publishing newspapers exclusively on Internet (See 519130 Internet publishing and broadcasting and web search portals)
  • selling media time or space for media owners (See 541840 Media representatives)