Google and the future of journalism
Yesterday Marissa Mayer of Google spoke to the US Senate at a hearing on the future of journalism . As you know, journalism is a vital element of civil society. There are suspicions that Google may threaten its well-being and, therefore, threaten the whole democratic society.
Marissa Mayer explained the position of her company about the accusations of parasitism on the part of content creators, major American media and news agencies (for example, the director of Forbes media holding recently stated that Google earns about $ 60 million a year from their exclusive content). The position of the search giant is known: Google does not interfere with their work, but only helps by bringing new visitors to their sites. Marissa Mayer said that Google provides about 1 billion clicks per month to online newspaper sites.
The fact that traditional media have to change their business models is a natural process. According to Mayer, the culture of information consumption by the population is currently changing. People now consume one news item at a time, rather than one newspaper at a time, as before, she said.
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Marissa Mayer also explained that Google is not the enemy of journalism, but, on the contrary, it is becoming an indispensable tool for a modern journalist, without whom he cannot do the job properly. Here is the full text of her speech (PDF) .
Marissa Mayer explained the position of her company about the accusations of parasitism on the part of content creators, major American media and news agencies (for example, the director of Forbes media holding recently stated that Google earns about $ 60 million a year from their exclusive content). The position of the search giant is known: Google does not interfere with their work, but only helps by bringing new visitors to their sites. Marissa Mayer said that Google provides about 1 billion clicks per month to online newspaper sites.
The fact that traditional media have to change their business models is a natural process. According to Mayer, the culture of information consumption by the population is currently changing. People now consume one news item at a time, rather than one newspaper at a time, as before, she said.
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Marissa Mayer also explained that Google is not the enemy of journalism, but, on the contrary, it is becoming an indispensable tool for a modern journalist, without whom he cannot do the job properly. Here is the full text of her speech (PDF) .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/287582/
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