Google was hit with a $593 million fine by France’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday for not properly complying with orders to hold talks with news publishers in “good faith” and for failing to create plans to pay them for their content. In addition to levying the fine, France’s antitrust authority […]
Microsoft is urging the US to adopt a version of a proposed Australian law that would force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for their stories, arguing that it would “strengthen democracy” and “support a free press.” The proposed Australian law, currently before a parliamentary committee, calls for Google […]
Scratch the top editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune off the wish list of candidates for the executive editor job at the LA Times. “I respect the heck out of the LA Times, but I politely declined to be a candidate,” Rene Sanchez told Media Ink. He had served as […]
The New York Daily News owned by Tribune Publishing and three local dailies in New Jersey owned by the Gannett chain have unionized their newsrooms with the News Guild of New York. The three Gannett-owned papers include The Record of Bergen County, the Daily Record in Morris County and the […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City’s two major newspapers have printed daily editions for more than a century, but now the presses will only be whirring once a week as they join other news organizations nationwide in shifting their focus online to stay afloat. The Salt Lake Tribune and […]
A Tennessee newspaper is investigating how a “horrific” full-page, paid advertisement from a religious group that predicts a nuclear terror attack in Nashville next month ended up being published on Sunday. In the ad that appeared in The Tennessean, a Gannett-owned newspaper in Nashville, the group Future For America claims […]
A merger of two Hampton newspapers — Ron Perelman’s The Independent with Dan’s Papers — means that Thursday marks the first time in 24 years there is no print edition of the weekly Independent. Dan’s Papers is the print survivor. But the Independent’s website and many of its top journalists […]
