Budget day: A look behind the scenes
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This article was published 06/03/2019 (2130 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Hours before the provincial government presents its budgetary vision, members of Winnipeg’s media get a sneak peek.
In what’s commonly referred to as the lockup, journalists agree to an embargo — an agreement to post a story at a certain time — in exchange for reviewing key documents, producing their content, consulting with department experts and attending a news conference with the finance minister in advance of the news becoming public.
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