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REMUNERATING NEWS

02.12.2022
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By Derek Wilding

In a room in the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, some surprising news: digital platform companies support a separate fund for journalism as an alternative to a mandatory bargaining scheme. Some further investigation revealed that Google advanced the idea of
‘platforms contributing to an independent fund in accordance with a predictable and transparent formula’ in its brief to a Canadian parliamentary committee. Observers of parliamentary committee hearings in the preceding week may have heard Google’s policy lead in Canada, Colin McKay, speak in support of the idea.

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Fresh from chairing a debate on ‘Safeguarding News’ at the IIC Annual Conference, DEREK WILDING discusses how a journalism fund could be the answer

Intermedia Issue:
Vol 50 Issue 2
Issue Date:
December 2022
Derek Wilding (Prof) Derek Wilding (Prof) Co-Director, Centre for Media Transition, University of Technology, Sydney

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