Google will start paying some publishers for news articles

[isabelc]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302791/google-news-publishers-pay-content-australia-germany-brazil

[merricksb]

Original announcement discussed here 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23637775

[kiba]

I am of mixed feeling about this.

Sure, publishers of news got it backward about how Google News benefits them, but at the same time news are dying, and with serious journalism.

However, I don't really expect new sources to suddenly improve in quality. If they got cause and effect backward with google news, who know what else they got wrong?