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BTLR’s Yale encouraged by Australian news compensation model; too reliant on big tech, says OpenMedia

News | 07/06/2021 6:18 pm EDT
BTLR chair Janet Yale speaks to reporters in Ottawa on Jan. 29, 2020./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

An initiative explored this past month in a Senate private member’s bill effectively “hitched our wagon to the continued growth of these big companies” like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.‘s Google, according to OpenMedia executive director Laura Tribe. 

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