This editorial and editorial cartoon are available to all newspapers for reprint. more

"I recently wrote an extensive analysis and criticism of a proposed California link tax, offering many alternatives. A state senator just proposed his own alternative — and it is even worse." — Jeff Jarvis more

What’s important to watch, in this gnarly legislation filled with acronyms, are two simple things: Money In and Money Out. more

Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech. more

The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, social interaction and comThe biggest U.S. challenge so far to the vast power of today’s tech giants is nearing its conclusion.merce. more

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Google will present closing arguments Thursday and Friday in the government’s case alleging the tech giant has illegally maintained and operated a monopoly in the online search market.   more

El Diario is among 150+ local newspapers advocating to save local news in New York. more

Meta says it will take a number of days for news tab to be fully removed in Australia and the United States. more

European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. more

A U.S. District Court judge in New York has ruled in favor of Nexstar, dismissing DirecTV’s assertions that the broadcast TV station owner engaged in actions in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. more

America’s story isn’t getting told because more than half of U.S. counties lost all or nearly all of their reliable, local news sources over the last two decades. more

Chances are “pretty good” that Google's precedent-setting decision in December to compensate Canadian news sites $100 million for the use of their content could translate into billions of dollars in payouts to local news sites in the U.S. So says Conan Gallaty, chairman and CEO of the Tampa Bay Times and Times Publishing Co, who predicts that U.S. news organizations could receive an $11 billion windfall a year if the bill passes. more

Alphabet's Google was hit with a 2.1-billion-euro ($2.3 billion) lawsuit by 32 media groups including Axel Springer and Schibsted on Wednesday, alleging that they had suffered losses due to the company's practices in digital advertising. more

Regional press decline can be stopped if it gets level playing field with Big Tech. more

The ailing local news industry in Illinois would receive compensation from Big Tech companies and benefit from state tax incentives and a new journalism scholarship program under sweeping legislation introduced in the General Assembly this month. more

Our working paper found that the tech giants owe publishers billions of dollars. Here’s how we arrived at that conclusion and what it means. more

As in the wider world, local journalism enters an uncertain new year after a brutal 2023. more

News Media Canada welcomed the final regulations associated with the Online News Act (C-18). more

News leaders told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that journalism is at risk of being snuffed out by tech giants that apparently care more about growing profits than preserving this cornerstone of democracy. Wednesday’s hearing focused on the latest threat to the battered local news industry, artificial intelligence systems scraping and regurgitating the work of print and broadcast journalists with little to no attribution or compensation. more

It was a freezing Tuesday evening in Fergus, Ontario — around negative-6 degrees Celsius. But the local newspaper’s publisher, Dave Adsett, stepped out of the hockey rink and braved the cold for an after-hours phone interview. Adsett wanted to be heard clearly, as he explained the benefits of a new law requiring Google to pay for news content it benefits from in Canada. more