Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Tara Deschamps
Publication Date: January 3, 2025 - 12:32
Google sends funds to Canadian Journalism Collective in exchange for Online News Act exemption
January 3, 2025
Google has sent the $100-million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to disperse the funds.The U.S. tech giant confirmed it has transferred the money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, a federally incorporated non-profit organization led by independent publishers and broadcasters.The collective said in mid-December that it was working to distribute the first tranche of funds by the end of January to media businesses whose work was shared or repurposed by Google.
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