The Start of Google and Facebook Paying For News Content?

At a time when smaller news outlets have been forced to close and big tech companies dominate distribution, the Australian Government may make the likes of Google and Facebook pay for their news content. What’s The Problem? The pandemic has made the media landscape in Australia a very bleak one with the closing of newspapers, journalists being furloughed or made redundant, and smaller media companies struggling against big, global, digital competitors.  Australia’s big media companies, whic...