Piattaforme e stampa: qual è un prezzo equo per le notizie?
Fri 19 April 2024
10:00 - 10:50
Free
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Who is winning the ongoing battle between platforms and publishers? This panel delves into the global impact of the world-first Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) introduced in 2021, examining its effectiveness and influence in places as wide-reaching as the US, Canada, UK, Brazil, and South Africa. Experts scrutinize the divergent strategies adopted by Google and Meta in response to the Australian legislation, shedding light on the difficulties of platform regulation and its outcomes, both positive and contested, two years post-implementation.
Drawing on their work and experiences, they discuss how Google and Meta initially adopted in other countries the same playbook as in Australia in 2020. Both companies have voiced strong opposition to the new Canadian law, Online News Act ‘Bill C-18’, with Meta acting on its threat and withdrawing Canadian news links from Facebook. Google also opposed the law, but at the end of 2023, at the final hour agreed to keep news on its platform in exchange for annual payments to news outlets worth approximately $100 million. The panel explores how the Australian Code shapes global thinking about platform regulation, and its challenges so far as current deals begin to expire in 2024.
The panel explores critical debates by diverse actors calling for transparency and fair compensation for news content. Our expert moderator (with senior economists) has calculated that newsrooms are being shortchanged. Anya Schiffrin estimates that in the US alone, a fair price for news would be more than 12 billion USD a year. This panel explains why this is so, and if achieving it is possible.
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Andrea Carson
Andrea Carson is Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. She is a political scientist and a trained journalist. She has authored book studies on journalism including Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age (Routledge, New York) and has a co-authored book published in December 2022, Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism (Routledge, London). Andrea examines the media's role in democracies, journalism and political communication. Her studies focus on information quality (both high and low) with special interests in investigative journalism (high quality) and mis and disinformation (low quality information and fake news). She studies mitigation measures to combat mis- and disinformation, including fact -checking and government regulatory environments. She has published top-tier journal articles on journalism, Australian politics, political communication during election campaig...
Jonathan Heawood
Jonathan Heawood cares about journalism that cares about people. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Public Interest News Foundation, the first charity in the UK with a mandate to support public interest news. He previously launched and ran IMPRESS, the UK’s independent press regulator. He started his career as a journalist at the Observer newspaper and has also held leadership roles at English PEN and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Alongside his day job, he is Chair of the Stephen Spender Trust and a Research Associate on the Norms for the New Public Sphere project at Stirling University. His first book, The Press Freedom Myth, was published in 2019, and he is now working on a book about media pioneers.
Misha Ketchell
Misha Ketchell is editor of The Conversation Australia and New Zealand, a digital publisher that provides trusted information by only working with academic experts who are writing within their area of expertise. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and in previous roles he was founding editor of The Big Issue Australia and editor of Crikey, The Reader and The Melbourne Weekly. He worked for The Age in Melbourne as a reporter and feature writer and spent several years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where he was a TV producer on Media Watch and The 7:30 Report and an editor on The Drum. He negotiated the Australian News Media Bargaining Code with Google but failed to get a deal with Facebook.
Khadija Patel
Khadija Patel pushes words on street corners. She is the Head of Programmes of The International Fund for Public Interest Media and is the former editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian in South Africa. She is also a co-founder of The Daily Vox and chairperson of the International Press Institute (IPI). As a journalist she has produced work for Sky News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Quartz, City Press and the Daily Maverick, among others. She is also a research associate at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand). She is passionate about the enhancement and protection of global media as a public good.