<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuc4KoeAPpM
Google News Initiative
Should media organizations and journalists accept funding from Google and Meta?
>101 views | Apr 9, 2022
Over the past few years, Google and Meta have given hundreds of millions of dollars to journalistic organisations, and have said they plan to give away hundreds of millions more. Some believe this kind of funding creates a conflict of interest. Should media organizations and journalists accept funding from Google and Meta, and if they do, what are the risks that come with this financing?
Con: Charlie Beckett (director Polis London School of Economics), Emily Bell (director Tow Center for Digital Journalism), Lars Boering (director European Journalism Centre), Mathew Ingram (chief digital writer Columbia Journalism Review)
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<https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/charlie-beckett
Professor Charlie Beckett is the founding director of Polis, the think-tank for research and debate around international journalism and society in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Polis runs events for journalists and the public as well as a programme of fellowships and research. It has a Summer School, holds conferences and publishes reports. Charlie is leading the Polis JournalismAI project and was Lead Commissioner for the LSE Truth, Trust & Technology Commission (T3). As well as being spokesperson for Polis, Media Policy Project and T3, and a regular blogger, Charlie Beckett is a regular commentator on journalism and politics for the UK and International media.
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bell
Emily Jane Bell (born 14 September 1965)[1] is a British academic and journalist. She is Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (Columbia School of Journalism)[2] and the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, part of the CSJ,[3] in New York City. Before taking up her academic post at the Tow Center in 2010, Bell had worked for The Guardian and Observer newspapers since 1990.[4]
Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk,[1] Bell read jurisprudence at Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated in 1987.[2] She began her career on Big Farm Weekly that year, and then joined Campaign, the magazine for the advertising business, in 1988.[5] In 1990, Bell joined The Observer as a business reporter[6] becoming Media Business Editor in 1995, deputy business editor,[7] and then Business Editor during 1998.[5] In June 2000, Bell became executive editor of the Media Guardian website,[8] and editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited in February 2001.[9]
In September 2006, Bell was appointed to the board of Guardian Newspapers Ltd and assumed the role of director of digital content for Guardian News and Media.[10] Emily Bell became a non-executive director of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, in January 2013.[11]
Bell is an editor of Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State,[12] published by Columbia University Press in March, 2017. She is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.
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<https://uncovered.ij4.eu/lars-boering/
Lars Boering is the director of the European Journalism Centre, an independent European non-profit working to support, strengthen, and develop journalism. In previous roles he has been actively involved with journalism, photography, and art. He was the managing director of the Amsterdam Art Foundation. In 2008 became an independent advisor and entrepreneur. As managing director of the Dutch Photographers’ Association, from 2010 to 2014, Lars advised photojournalists on copyright issues and entrepreneurial skills. As of 2015 he led the World Press Photo Foundation and has transformed it into an organisation that is more than a contest, becoming a global platform connecting professionals and audiences through trustworthy visual journalism, and storytelling. He has taught at academies throughout the world and been involved as advisor for festivals, contests, and other institutions. He is an experienced keynote speaker and moderator who believes lifelong learning is a necessity and a joy.
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<https://www.cjr.org/author/mathew-ingram
Mathew Ingram is CJR’s chief digital writer. Previously, he was a senior writer with Fortune magazine. He has written about the intersection between media and technology since the earliest days of the commercial internet. His writing has been published in the Washington Post and the Financial Times as well as by Reuters and Bloomberg.