Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada Brad Anderson / Jun 23, 2023 The Canadian Senate has passed legislation requiring websites like Google and Meta to compensate news organizations for information that has been syndicated or repurposed. This occurs at a time when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration is … Continue reading Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada
By Connie Lin April 20, 2023 BuzzFeed Inc. will close down its journalism venture, BuzzFeed News, the company’s cofounder and chief executive Jonah Peretti revealed on Thursday, in yet another grim reckoning for the digital-media industry. Spun out of BuzzFeed over a decade ago, the News unit was credited with bringing prestige to the … Continue reading BuzzFeed News is closing up shop as the company nurses its bottom line, enlists ChatGPT
News Publishers’ Twitter Ad Spend Down 83%, Study Finds by Colin Kirkland , April 14, 2023 New findings from advertising intelligence platform MediaRadar reveal an alarming 83% year-over-year decrease in news publishers’ Twitter ad spend from January 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Since Twitter CEO Elon Musk bought the microblogging platform in October 2022, … Continue reading News Publishers’ Twitter Ad Spend Down 83%, Study Finds
By Emily Price March 10, 2023 When it comes to media coverage about female business leaders, mainstream outlets are forever preoccupied with age. That’s according to a new analysis by Cision, a platform for marketing and PR professionals. It took a look at the most commonly used adjectives to describe C-level leaders in … Continue reading When will the news media stop defining female CEOs by their age?
Journalism Groups Join Coalition To Save Local News by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 27, 2023 Rebuild Local News, a coalition group, proposed a dramatic tax-based solution to the problem of disappearing local journalism, which is having significant social and political consequences, according to Near Media co-founder Greg Sterling. Turns out the art of news is dwindling. Since 2004, 2,100 … Continue reading Journalism Groups Join Coalition To Save Local News
Yahoo News Debuts Interactive Climate Change Map by Ray Schultz , December 29, 2022 Yahoo News is offering a series about climate change, titled “Finding Safe Haven.” It features an interactive climate change map and individual write-ups on how climate change will affect different communities. This depends on a dizzying number of factors, says David … Continue reading Yahoo News Debuts Interactive Climate Change Map
Google News Initiative Works With American Journalism Project To Fund, Advance Online News Startups by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, December 14, 2022 The Google News Initiative is working with the American Journalism Project to find U.S.-based founders with innovative ideas that can advance local news online. The latest 18-month venture launched by the Google News Initiative … Continue reading Google News Initiative Works With American Journalism Project To Fund, Advance Online News Startups
Australian Parliament passes law that requires Google, Facebook to pay for newsOfficials approved the changes that came from their negotiations with Facebook. M. Moon @mariella_moon The Australian law that makes it mandatory for companies like Google and Facebook to pay for news they use is ready to be enforced. Australia’s Parliament has passed the … Continue reading Meta threatens to block news content in Canada over media revenue-sharing legislation
By Samar Marwan August 31, 2022 Some may discredit Gen Z and millennials for being oblivious to current events when the reality is that 79% consume news daily, and a third pay out-of-pocket for news subscriptions. A New Media Insight Project survey looked at the media consumption habits of 16- to 40-year-olds and found … Continue reading Gen Z and millennials get their news from the paper, and Nextdoor
Analysts Have More Somber News For Online Advertising Industry by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 29, 2022 Raymond James analysts hosted an online advertising conference call earlier this month with an industry expert who has visibility into about $2 billion in ad spending across Fortune 1,000 advertisers. The expert expects about 25% year-over-year growth in 2022 … Continue reading Analysts Have More Somber News For Online Advertising Industry
