Supporting Journalism: Should Countries Copy Australia's News Media Bargaining Code?

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Director Taylor Owen and Columbia's Anya Schiffrin spoke with Rod Sims, architect of Australia's News Media Bargaining Code, and competition regulators from Germany, the UK, South Africa, France, and Canada about whether the Code — which requires Google and Facebook to pay for news — could or should be replicated elsewhere, and the risk of capture if platforms fund journalism directly.