Why Australia Is Making Facebook and Google Pay the Media
And why it might not work
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9 min readMay 5, 2020
News media are in crisis. Like many other industries, they’ve lost a huge chunk of revenue to the pandemic as advertising has dried up. What makes it worse for media is that they were already in deep trouble.
The New York Times calculated on April 10 that some 36,000 newsroom employees in the…