CEO Statement: Murdoch Proposes Carrier Fees
“Mr. Murdoch is a champion of journalism — and a staunch advocate for the news industry. We need a digital ecosystem that provides a viable economic return to publishers…”
CEO Statement: Facebook to Prioritize Trusted News Sources
The direction of Facebook’s announcement today is very positive and we commend them for it.
Australia Investigates Impact of Duopoly
This week, Australia’s competition regulator announced it would look into whether the tech duopoly has disrupted the news media market to the disadvantage of publishers.
Alliance Calls on Google, Facebook: Take Responsibility for Political Ads
At a House Information Technology Subcommittee Hearing today, News Media Alliance President and CEO David Chavern called upon online content distribution platforms – specifically Google and Facebook – “to…help stem the flow of misinformation—a problem that is largely of their own making.”
Statement: Facebook Testing Subscriptions in Instant Articles
The future of quality journalism requires that we find new and better ways to provide economic returns to news publishers. We view Facebook’s announcement today as a positive one and we strongly support any and all experiments to increase reader engagement and subscriptions.
Facebook Live Awards 2017
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News Media Alliance Calls for Legislation to Address Digital Duopoly Impact
Today, the News Media Alliance – representing almost 2,000 news organizations – called on Congress to allow publishers to negotiate collectively with dominant online platforms. The objective is to permit publishers to have concrete discussions with the two dominant distributors of online news content, Google and Facebook, on business model solutions to secure the long-term availability of local journalism produced by America’s newsrooms.
mediaXchange 2017: Facebook for News Publishers
Jason White, Manager, US News Partnerships at Facebook says, “We’re still trying to figure out how people share and consume information.”
UK News Media Association Calls for Urgent Investigation into Fake News
Today the London-based News Media Association called for an urgent investigation into the impact of Google, Facebook and the digital advertising supply chain on journalists’ ability to operate in a world increasingly threatened by fake news.
News on Facebook Regional Learning Events: Seattle & San Diego
News on Facebook is hosting another pair of regional learning events in Seattle on March 28 and San Diego on March 30.