StrypeyMediaWatch this week interviewed Dr Peter Thompson of Better Public Media about Labour's Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018927313/a-lifeboat-to-keep-news-afloat
BPM think that the bill misses the target, and is likely to benefit larger news media companies - if any - more than small ones. Instead, they proposes using an industry-wide levy - say on all digital ad revenues - to fund something like the Public Journalism Fund.
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A lifeboat to keep news afloat?
Last week the great and good of New Zealand’s news media urged MPs to back a law change to make Google and Facebook pay them for their news. They say the income could be critical to the survival of journalism here. But the lobby group campaigning for better public media says there’s a better way to ‘send a lifeboat’.