Canadian News Media Lobby Wants Facebook, Google to Pay Royalties
According to Bloomberg, News Media Canada (NMC) — a Canadian trade association for news media — is lobbying Members of Parliament to establish news rules allowing Canadian news outlets to negotiate fair compensation for their content published to social media by industry giants like Facebook and Google. The majority of the news and articles published...
Googles Announces Licensing Program to Pay Publishers for News Content
Google is prepping a new news experience" to launch later in 2020 — for which the internet giant will finally directly compensate some publishers of "high-quality content" under a new licensing program. A new report from Axios explains that the move marks a major departure for Google, which has until now steadfastly refused to compensate news...
Google News Gets a Much-Needed Redesign, Improving Readability
Google has given its news aggregation service a revamp to remove clutter on the page and give it a cleaner look for its desktop version. With the new design, readers will be able to see content that has been fact-checked by third parties. Google has also introduced a section on the right-side of the desktop...