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