Ahead of President Biden’s meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the News/Media Alliance is calling on the President to defend local journalism from Big Tech giants seeking to undermine efforts in Canada and the United States that would help save high-quality journalism.
The News/Media Alliance applauds California State Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) for today introducing the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA, AB 886), which would require Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Google to pay news publishers a “journalism usage fee” to use local news content.
Today, the News/Media Alliance signed on to principles developed by a coalition of creative industry organizations, the Human Artistry CampAIgn, outlining high-level principles that should govern the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and human-created content and creativity.
It is not a stretch to say that programmatic advertising and the broader suite of ad tech has harmed publishers in multiple ways. But a new report out in January gives us hope that things may be looking up.
News/Media Alliance Executive Vice President & General Counsel Danielle Coffey shared with Editor & Publisher Magazine ways news publishers can navigate complex copyright compliance issues.
Seven leading journalism, media, and pro-consumer antitrust advocacy organizations today sent a joint letter to President Joseph Biden calling on him to highlight, in his upcoming State of the Union address on February 7, the importance of local journalism. The letter highlights the urgent need for congressional action to preserve a strong democracy and a free press. Specifically, the letter urges President Biden to call on Congress to advance the bipartisan Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.
Today the Department of Justice filed its highly anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Google for its dominance in advertising and violation of the Sherman Act. This monumental lawsuit is based on years of investigation and claims against the dominant monopoly.
News/Media Alliance’s EVP & General Counsel, Danielle Coffey, provides a recap of the efforts around the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act in the 117th Congress and the bill’s outlook in the next Congress.
In response to Meta’s statement today that it would consider removing news from Facebook if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act – a bill that would require the dominant tech platforms to fairly compensate news publishers for use of their content – is passed in the U.S., the News/Media Alliance stated:
The Alliance today, in its comments in response to the FTC’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on commercial surveillance and data security, recommended the adoption of a “Data Poaching Rule” that would prohibit dominant tech platforms from poaching first-party consumer data from publishers.
