Why Consistency is Key in Nurturing

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Since the previous report was published in June 2018, Google and Facebook have been bidding to fund journalism . The two platforms have each invested $300 million in journalism globally, to be distributed between 2019 and 2022, with a focus on local news initiatives in the United States.

Facebook held its first local news summit to meet with publishers and discuss their expectations for the platform. The social network created grants to support initiatives that “connect communities with local newsrooms.”

Google is launching experimental projects gambling data france on local news and funding the creation of new newsrooms without intervening in editorial content.

A showdown that raises ethical issues

These journalism funding initiatives are emerging at a time when civil society is putting increasing ethical and regulatory pressure on platforms. But as platforms try to regain (or buy back) publishers’ trust, publishers remain wary, aware of the ethical dilemmas in this fragile alliance.

Publishers are faced with a kind of hypocrisy when they publish damning reports on these platforms about their practices. Some publishers question their complicity in attracting audiences to platforms whose practices they condemn.