![]() ![]() “As news consumption has moved online, community news outlets have been downsizing and closing at alarming rates. ![]() “There is more at stake with AB 886 than who pays and gets paid – more important is preserving local news providers,” said Wicks in a statement. ![]() It’s time they start paying market value for the journalism they are aggregating at no cost from local ![]() “These dominant digital ad companies are enriching their own platforms with local news content without adequately compensating the originators. “The CJPA provides a lifeline for news outlets – large, small, and ethnic – by directing a portion of the ad dollars back to the print, digital, and broadcast media that bear the entire cost of gathering and reporting local news while Big Tech bears none,” said Wicks. Both organizations are advocates for quality journalism, free press and fair compensation for locally produced news. The bill is authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) and has garnered the support of the 800-member California News Publishers Association (CNPA) and the News/Media Alliance (NMA). In turn, the bill requires news publishers to invest 70% of the profits from the usage fee in journalism jobs. The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), AB 886, directs big tech companies to pay publishers a “journalism usage fee” each time they use local news content and sell advertising alongside it. The California State Assembly will consider a bill this session that requires digital advertising monopolies like Google and Facebook to pay for content they siphon from local news outlets. ![]()
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