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.
The News Media Alliance today announced the launch of the second phase of its national campaign focused on supporting real news.
The News Media Alliance joined more than 20 press freedom organizations announcing the launch today of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a new nonpartisan website dedicated to documenting press freedom abuses across the United States.
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.
The News Media Alliance applauds the nomination of Brendan Carr as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
This decision by the EU clearly points to the need for US regulators to take more seriously the challenges posed by Google and other tech giants.
The News Media Alliance will join with Inland Press Association, Local Media Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association as a partner of Mega-Conference 2018, Feb. 26-28, 2018 in San Diego.
Today Senate Rules Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) decided to deny reporters permission to gather in the hallways of Congress.Thanks to Senate Rules Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the decision was later reversed; however, we are deeply concerned that reporter access to U.S. Senators was even questioned.
Facebook is building a tool to help users subscribe to news publications directly within the mobile app.
While we appreciate the energy and resources that Google has brought, as a partner of the Coalition for Better Ads (launched last September), to the effort to improve the customer experience around digital advertising, we are very concerned to learn that Google appears to be taking unilateral action to implement the Coalition’s standards by adding an ad blocking feature within Chrome that would block all advertising to websites that do not comply with these new standards.
