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September 8, 2021

Dear News Media Canada members,

Here is your weekly roundup of headlines related to the ongoing advocacy to ensure tech giants like Facebook and Google pay their fair share for journalistic work.

Australia proves that small publishers benefit from collective negotiation with Big Tech - Canada should follow suit

Australia proves that small publishers benefit from collective negotiation with Big Tech - Canada should follow suit
News Media Canada believes that Canada should introduce legislation in the next Parliament that would allow Canadian publishers to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook, and those negotiations should be backed up by baseball-style, final offer arbitration.

Your Levelling the Digital Playing Field update
for September 8, 2021

Your Levelling the Digital Playing Field update for September 8, 2021
The Liberal Party of Canada has announced it is committed to ‘Level the Playing Field with Digital Giants’ as well as providing other support measures for journalism in the event they are re-elected in the upcoming federal election.

New op-ed for members: Time to put a filling in truth decay

New op-ed for members: Time to put a filling in truth decay
Jamie Irving, chair and Paul Deegan, president and CEO of News Media Canada have written a new op-ed that we encourage members to run in their publications and on their websites.
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