Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code?

Dwyer, T; Flew, T; Wilding, D

Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code?

Dwyer, T Flew, T Wilding, D

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dc.contributor.author	Dwyer, T
dc.contributor.author	Flew, T
dc.contributor.author	Wilding, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7806-8895
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-27T06:00:25Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-27T06:00:25Z
dc.identifier.citation	Communications, 0, (0)
dc.identifier.issn	0341-2059
dc.identifier.issn	1613-4087
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/170898
dc.description.abstract	<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Taken at face value the introduction in 2021 of Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (“the Code”) may appear “world leading,” innovative, and, in general, a productive and strategic intervention to reverse the decline of public interest journalism. It is claimed that in the Australian news industry context, an annual transfer of around $200 million between two platform companies – Google and Meta – and news businesses has now been put in place (Sims, 2022). All major news media companies in Australia, if not smaller more independent ones, have greatly benefitted from the new Code, and anecdotally it appears that the funding has resulted in the creation of significant numbers of new journalists being hired. Yet the exact investment destination and ultimate beneficiaries of the funding are not known beyond the corporate walls of the recipients. The article points to the transparency and sustainability problems inherent to the new Code, arguing that an alternative approach to funding public interest journalism might be a levy funded by the platforms.</jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP220100589
dc.relation.ispartof	Communications
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1515/commun-2022-0100
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1902 Film, Television and Digital Media, 2001 Communication and Media Studies
dc.subject.classification	Communication & Media Studies
dc.title	Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code?
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CMT - Centre for Media Transition
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Abstract Taken at face value the introduction in 2021 of Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (“the Code”) may appear “world leading,” innovative, and, in general, a productive and strategic intervention to reverse the decline of public interest journalism. It is claimed that in the Australian news industry context, an annual transfer of around $200 million between two platform companies – Google and Meta – and news businesses has now been put in place (Sims, 2022). All major news media companies in Australia, if not smaller more independent ones, have greatly benefitted from the new Code, and anecdotally it appears that the funding has resulted in the creation of significant numbers of new journalists being hired. Yet the exact investment destination and ultimate beneficiaries of the funding are not known beyond the corporate walls of the recipients. The article points to the transparency and sustainability problems inherent to the new Code, arguing that an alternative approach to funding public interest journalism might be a levy funded by the platforms.

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