What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can California Save Journalism?
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The California Journalism Preservation Act would make companies like Google and Meta pay publishers for the news content appearing in their feeds and search results—and force news organizations to spend that money on their journalists. How have similar laws worked in Canada and Australia? And could it solve journalism’s on-going revenue problem?
Guest: Matt Pearce, former LA Times journalist, the president of Media Guild of the West.
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