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Feb 17, 2021 · New York, NY (February 17, 2021) – News Corp announced today that it has agreed to an historic multi-year partnership with Google to provide trusted journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google.
Feb 17, 2021 · Google will start paying Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for the use of its journalism in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, the latest sign of a changing dynamic between publishers...
Feb 17, 2021 · Feb 17 (Reuters) - News Corp (NWSA.O) struck a global news deal with Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media company said on Wednesday, in one of the most...
Feb 17, 2021 · GOOG. (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google reached a three-year agreement in which the search giant will pay for news, a long-sought truce in a pitched battle over the value...
- ‘Nobody Knows How Much Anybody Else Is Being Paid’
- Why Google Started Paying For News
- More Than $100M Dished Out Down Under
- The News Showcase ‘Formula’
- Google’s Showcase Add-ons
- UK: ‘Many Publishers Have Done A Deal in The UK – But Most Are Unhappy’
- EU Regulations Hit Google in France and Germany
- Us: Showcase Delay on The Cards
- Publishers Underwhelmed by Payments and Product
- Google’s Response in Full
Sundar Pichai – the chief executive of Google’s owner, Alphabet – announced the launch of News Showcase in a blog on 1 October 2020. Armed with a $333m-a-year budget, Showcase was promoted as a slick new service for readers, and a lifeline for publishers whose struggles had been exacerbated by Covid-19. So far, Google has signed cash-for-content de...
Under the News Showcase programme, Google pays publications a monthly fee to maintain a newsfeed, featuring headlines, pictures and website links. Readers can browse different feeds on the Showcase homepage and choose to ‘follow’ certain publications. Publishers with paywalled websites are also paid to offer up free access to some of their content....
In April 2020, Australia’s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, announced to the world that his government would be introducing legislation to force Google and Facebook to pay for news content. The announcement came two-and-a-half years after the Australian government had first ordered the nation’s competition watchdog to launch an investigation into the ef...
It might be assumed that the eight-figure deals leaking out of Australia are good news for the rest of the global journalism industry. After all, Google is understood to have told numerous publishers that their Showcase offers are non-negotiable and dictated by a strict, globally consistent formula that is likely to be scrutinised by regulators. Bu...
Assuming there is a strict, “inflexible” formula at the heart of Showcase, why do Australian publishers appear to be receiving disproportionately generous deals? The primary reason appears to be that News Showcase deals often come with add-ons. For example, when News Corp announced its cash-for-content deal with Google, the News Showcase scheme was...
In spite of numerous concerns and gripes, several large publishers have signed up to become Google News Showcase partners, while a minority have held off from doing so. Why have news companies gone down different paths? The answer varies by country and publisher. One source at a UK publication that has not signed up to News Showcase said many Briti...
Google has agreed deals with several large publishers in France and Germany, the European Union’s largest economies. But regulatory setbacks, stemming from the EU’s new Copyright Directive, have created complications for Google. As first reported by Reutersand verified by a well-placed source, Google agreed a $76m cash-for-content deal with 121 Fre...
For Google, the most concerning gap in its News Showcase empire is probably the United States, which is home to its own headquarters as well as some of the world’s largest publications. The tech giant has already struck global deals with News Corp – which publishes the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Barron’s in the US – and Reuters. But no ...
What is the point of Google News Showcase? This question formed a key part of Press Gazette’s investigation. Google says Showcase is a product designed to help its users find and access quality, trustworthy news. But critics, like US journalism academic Jeff Jarvis, say it is an “envelope stuffed with cash” designed to placate publishers and stave ...
Top photo credit: Shutterstock This article was edited on 5 October to state that Showcase deals have been agreed in at least 15, rather than 16, countries and that it has launched in 11 rather than 12 of them. Previously Italy was named twice in these lists. We also clarified that Google is rumoured to have set aside £30m per year for the UK news ...
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Feb 17, 2021 · News Corp Says Google Will Make ‘Significant Payments’ for News Under Global Three-Year Deal. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp said it reached a three-year pact with Google under which the ...
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Feb 17, 2021 · Google will pay News Corp for the right to showcase its news articles. Google struck a three-year deal with the Murdoch family owned media conglomerate News Corp., which includes ad...
