A standard, percentage-based digital levy in Australia would create financial and operational certainty for digital platforms (and their shareholders) who pay it, rather than the uncertainty case-by-case negotiations with news producers has the potential to create, argues Public Interest Journalism Initiative Chair Allan Fels in an opinion column published in the Australian this week. […]
PIJI’s latest research, Court Reporting in Regional Australia, reveals that public interest journalism in regional Australia is predominantly concentrated within major news organizations and primarily focuses on coverage at the Local Court level, rather than
The Age has revealed that a proposed levy paid by Meta and other tech giants to fund local journalism has been discussed in meetings between Jones and bosses from News Corp, Nine and other companies.
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