CANBERRA, Australia — Seven West Media has become the largest Australian news media business to strike a deal with Google to pay for journalism in a partnership announced Monday before the nation’s Parliament considers draft laws to force digital giants to pay for news. Google and the publicly listed broadcast television, print and online publishing company jointly announced they had agreed on “long-term partnership” after weekend discussions Australian government… Source link

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Google announced two weeks ago that it had begun paying seven far smaller Australian websites under News Showcase. Google regional director Mel Silva said: “We are proud to support original, trusted, and quality journalism and are excited to welcome Seven West Media today as a major Australian publishing partner to join Google News Showcase.” The partnership was a substantial investment for Google in journalism not just in metro areas but in smaller communities, she added. Neither Google… Source link

Kevin Durant is slated to miss more time. One game after returning from a stint in COVID-19 quarantine, the Brooklyn Nets star is sidelined with a hamstring strain. The Nets announced on Sunday that Durant will miss at least two games with the injury. The Nets are scheduled to face the Sacramento Kings on Monday and the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. A showdown with the Los Angeles Lakers looms Thursday. It’s not clear when or how Durant suffered the injury. After missing three games last week… Source link

Nobody in the NBA has been hit as hard by COVID-19 as Karl-Anthony Towns. Last March, his mother passed away from the disease, devastating him. Since then and five other family members to the disease, and he himself got it — a fairly serious case — and had to miss several weeks. So it’s easy to forgive him if he was a little put off by the idea of playing a Charlotte team this week where three players were out due to health and safety protocols — one not pulled until within a couple… Source link

White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned, the day after he was suspended for issuing a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter. Mr Ducklo had been put on a week-long suspension without pay on Friday (local time) after a report surfaced in Vanity Fair outlining his sexist threats against a female Politico journalist to try to suppress a story about his relationship, telling her “I will destroy you”. The journalist had… Source link

(This February 15 story corrects to Monday in paragraph 2) SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Seven West Media Ltd became the country’s first major news outlet to strike a licensing deal with Google, as the government pushes ahead with a law that would force the internet giant to pay media companies for content. At an earnings announcement on Monday, Seven, which owns a free-to-air television network and the main metro newspaper in the city of Perth, said it would supply content for Google’s… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Seven West Media Ltd became the country’s first major news outlet to strike a licensing deal with Google, as the government pushes ahead with a law that would force the internet giant to pay media companies for content. At an earnings announcement on Tuesday, Seven, which owns a free-to-air television network and the main metro newspaper in the city of Perth, said it would supply content for Google’s News Showcase platform. It did not disclose terms. The… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Seven West Media Ltd became the country’s first major news outlet to strike a licensing deal with Google, as the government pushes ahead with a law that would force the internet giant to pay media companies for content. At an earnings announcement on Tuesday, Seven, which owns a free-to-air television network and the main metro newspaper in the city of Perth, said it would supply content for Google’s News Showcase platform. It did not disclose terms. The… Source link

(Reuters) – Australia’s Seven West Media Ltd said on Monday it entered into an initial deal to form a long-term partnership with Alphabet Inc’s Google to provide content to the tech company’s News Showcase product. Google launched its News Showcase platform in Australia earlier this month, which will see it strike its own content deals with publishers and pay seven domestic outlets to use their content. The launch of the product is Google’s latest tactic in a campaign against the… Source link