How Google's Digital News Initiative is evolving
This article talks about how google is offering cash incentives to journalists from around the world to post their news stories online. Almost £130 million has been invested into this so far. Moreover, google will not own any of the content that they will be promoting so cannot make a profit from it.
This seems like a bid to save professional journalism, something google have been accused of starting in the first place by taking advertising revenue away from the newspapers where journalists had their stories, so some would argue that this is something google should have done before to help protect professional journalism.
This seems like a bid to save professional journalism, something google have been accused of starting in the first place by taking advertising revenue away from the newspapers where journalists had their stories, so some would argue that this is something google should have done before to help protect professional journalism.
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