Why Australia Is Making Facebook and Google Pay the Media

And why it might not work

Will Oremus
OneZero
Published in
9 min readMay 5, 2020

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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…

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