Are Google and Facebook really the future of journalism? New Policies risk making it so
At the end of February this year, Australia passed a law which required Facebook and Google to either negotiate deals for news material and links carried by their services, or be forced into arbitration. If no agreement could be made, the law mandated that the links be taken down from the platforms entirely. Over the past two months, this small regional issue has become a critical test case for ways in which national regulators might start to reshape their media economies, rather than simply surrender to the forces of the global online advertising market as dictated by large online platforms.
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AMSTERDAM November 2020 saw the conclusion in Schiphol, the Dutch airport near Amsterdam, to the pre-trial hearings in the case being brought by the Dutch Prosecution Service against three Russians (Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov) and one Ukrainian (Leonid Kharchenko), former military leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic. They were charged with the delivery of a Russian Buk-Telar missile launcher that was allegedly used by separatists in eastern Donbass to shoot down civilian Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, with the ensuing loss of 298 lives.
Following the Court’s consideration in March and April 2021 of defense requests for further investigation, which it would allow, the main trial itself was scheduled to begin on June 7, 2021, in the District Court of The Hague. Regardless of its outcome, I shall argue that this trial and all the major stages that preceded it – notably, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB
News Corp to raise $1b as it looks at potential buying spree
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will raise nearly $1 billion in debt from the private market as it looks at a potential buying spree to boost the company’s revenue.
The US-based media business, which owns
The Australian, The Wall Street Journal and
The Times, told the New York stock exchange on Thursday morning (Australian time) it would offer $US750 million ($985 million) in senior notes which it intends to use for general corporate purposes such as acquisitions and day-to-day operations.
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Published March 17, 2021, 2:04 PM
A new era in trade for journalism kicks in as social media giant, Facebook signs an agreement with News Corporation to pay for content in Australia.
At the onset of the pandemic, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission drafted the legislation aimed at addressing the market imbalance between Australian news publishers and Internet giants Facebook and Google serving as gateways to the information superhighway.
In less than a year, just last February 2021, the Australian government passed a controversial world-first law (known as the News Media Bargaining Code or News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) making tech companies and platforms like Facebook and Google pay for news content in the continent.