Marketers for an Open Web legal adviser Tim Cowen condemns ‘sweetheart’ deal between News Corp and Google.

While Facebook was blocking news in Australia, Google did a global deal with News Corp, thereby saving journalism worldwide, right?

During the pandemic, people have been buying ever fewer newspapers, and advertising has been slashed. Local newspapers and regional journals are the hardest hit. That comes on top of years of news online replacing news in print. Since 2005, in the UK, at least 265 local newspaper outlets have gone.