How does the news survive? INMA head's view

How does the news survive? INMA head's view
INMA CEO Earl Wilkinson: the news vs Google fight requires a government thumb on the scales. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Unless governments intervene to regulate the way search engines make money from the news, “there is seriously no light at the end of the tunnel to fund journalism”.That is the inescapable conclusion reached by one of the world’s closest observers of trends in news media, International News Media Association (INMA) chief executive Earl Wilkinson.At the end of a two-week whistle-stop tour of news publishers in seven Asia-Pacific countries, Wilkinson was in New Zealand for briefings with NZ News Publishers Association (NPA) membe...

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