Tag: Google
Palestine protesters condemn Google, demand NZ action over Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Pro-Palestinian protesters today condemned Google for sacking protesting staff and demanded that the New Zealand government immediately "cut ties with Israeli genocide".
Wearing...
Mediawatch: Apocalypse now for NZ news – take 2?
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Television New Zealand’s proposals to balance its worsening books by killing news and current affairs programmes...
Myles Thomas: Debate over public media merger is the proof we...
COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas
How the RNZ/TVNZ merger went from its first reading in Parliament to the legislative extinction list is an example of why...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Global tech titans under growing NZ pressure to pay for news
RNZ News
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
There is mounting pressure on tech titans Google and Facebook to pay local news media to carry their...
Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business...
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University
News Corp Australia and Google have announced the...
Facebook and Google deals may leave small publishers out in the...
Asia Pacific Report
The federal government must act urgently to support small Australian news outlets that could be shut out of commercial deals with Facebook...
RSF condemns Facebook news ban in Australia – block reported to...
Asia Pacific Report
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned Facebook for carrying out its threat to block the sharing of its journalistic news content in...
Kasun Ubayasiri: How will ruthless billionaire posturing by Rupert and Zuckerberg...
COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane
It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...
Facebook has pulled the trigger on news content — and possibly...
ANALYSIS: By Diana Bossio, Swinburne University of Technology
Facebook this week made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content....
Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nine Entertainment and News Corporation are wrong to say Google and Facebook have destroyed their business models by stealing content, according...
RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia,...
IFJ, MEAA condemn Facebook threat to ban Australian users sharing news
Pacific Media Watch
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) have condemned the global tech giant Facebook's threat to...
MEAA welcomes making Facebook and Google pay for media content
Pacific Media Watch
Moves to make digital platforms begin to compensate media organisations for the content they have been using for free will go some...
Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?
By Dr Amanda Watson in Port Moresby
In Papua New Guinea, the Post-Courier featured a front-page story with the headline “PNG tops world in ‘porn’...