News Corp, Google partner to provide content for Google News Showcase

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in General Discussion edited February 2021
News Corp, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, has partnered with Google to provide its journalism to the search giant's news endeavors in return for "significant payments."

Credit: Google
Credit: Google


In a new three-year partnership, some of News Corp's publications will join the recently announced Google News Showcase -- an endeavor that Google says is focused on creating and curating journalism. The partnership will include development of a subscription platform, sharing of Google ad revenue, cultivation of audio journalism, and investments in video journalism by YouTube.

The publications joining Google News Showcase include:

  • The Wall Street Journal

  • Barron's

  • MarketWatch

  • The New York Post

  • The Times

  • The Sunday Times

  • The Australian

  • news.com.au

  • Sky News

  • "Multiple metropolitan and local titles"

"I would like to thank Sundar Pichai and his team at Google who have shown a thoughtful commitment to journalism that will resonate in every country," said News Corp CEO Robert Thomson. "This has been a passionate cause for our company for well over a decade and I am gratified that the terms of trade are changing, not just for News Corp, but for every publisher."

Thomson added that the multi-year partnership would have a "positive impact on journalism around the globe as we have firmly established that there should be a premium for premium journalism."

Google first announced the Google News Showcase project in October. The initiative sees the search giant paying more than $1 billion over a three year period to both create and curate content for the news platform.

Compared to its previous efforts in the journalism space, the Google News Showcase is meant to highlight higher-quality journalism. The company claims that it will place particular emphasis on human curation and publisher editorial decisions.

News publishers have long complained about the way technology companies minimize their brands and steal their revenue and readership. The New York Times pulled out of Apple News in June 2020, for example. Some publishers are also concerned about an upcoming iOS anti-tracking feature set to debut in the spring.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 11
    Fox & Friends. Figures. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 2 of 11
    flydogflydog Posts: 1,123member
    Fox & Friends. Figures. 
    Figures how?   Is there a secret connection betwen Google and Fox that none of the rest of us is aware of?
    williamlondonmacseeker
  • Reply 3 of 11
    I hope Google will be fact-checking the news they distribute via their platform. News Corp media outlets have a track record of spreading misinformation. 
    williamlondondysamoriarobin huberviclauyyclolliverwatto_cobra
  • Reply 4 of 11
    bluefire1bluefire1 Posts: 1,301member
    This sounds like a real opportunity to present news from thoroughly respectable publications throughout  the liberal to conservative spectrum. As long as Google doesn’t try to censor  any political articles under the guise of misinformation, it would be a breath of fresh air!
    edited February 2021 watto_cobra
  • Reply 5 of 11
    MarketWatch? The New York Post? What do they know about “a thoughtful commitment to journalism?” I would expect a higher standard from Google, to be honest. 
    dysamoriarobin huberviclauyycwatto_cobra
  • Reply 6 of 11
    edge57 said:
    I hope Google will be fact-checking the news they distribute via their platform. News Corp media outlets have a track record of spreading misinformation. 
    So does CNN, MSNBC, ABC, ESPN, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post etc. Misinformation = the other side getting their stories and opinions out too. Of course, I am excluding Trump era disinformation from this. 
  • Reply 7 of 11
    MarketWatch? The New York Post? What do they know about “a thoughtful commitment to journalism?” I would expect a higher standard from Google, to be honest. 
    You mean like Buzzfeed, Gawker, Huffingtonpost and Vox? Because most of the "mainstream" news outlets now get their leads from Buzzfeed and Vox and half of the "reporters" from the mainstream media got their start there.
    edited February 2021
  • Reply 8 of 11
    dysamoriadysamoria Posts: 3,430member
    The phrase “hive of scum and villainy” comes to mind...

    The alignment & consolidation of monied special interests and abusive corporate power continues...
    retrogustorobin huber
  • Reply 9 of 11
    dysamoriadysamoria Posts: 3,430member
    Also, anyone suggesting “left leaning mainstream news” is somehow equal to the likes of News Corp’s political propaganda machine needs to learn about false equivalency and equivocation.
    retrogustorobin huberRayz2016bikerdude
  • Reply 10 of 11
    flydog said:
    Fox & Friends. Figures. 
    Figures how?   Is there a secret connection betwen Google and Fox that none of the rest of us is aware of?
    Don’t you find it odd that the most notoriously right wing (and most profitable) news network in the U.S., Fox, is not even mentioned in the list of News Corp properties? That omission was not accidental. There is no secret connection . . . yet. But if this deal closes, they are the ones who have kept the Fox connection secret. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 11 of 11
    No mentioning of the news media bargaining code behind all this? Love the Aussie government giving a wristy to monopolising multinational corporations to screw over other monopolising multinational corporations, as bad as America...
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