#californiajournalismpreservationact — Public Fediverse posts
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Time spent working on a few more involved Fast Company assignments left me with just two bylines for the week.
8/22/2024: Google Agrees to Subsidize California Newsrooms to Avoid ‘Link Tax’ Mandate, PCMag
Three bits of context that I’m glad I had time to add to this post: how a key clause of the California Journalism Preservation Act had changed since last summer, how newsroom managers might have a different attitude about their sites being crawled by an AI bot instead of a search-engine bot, and how much profit Google reported in its most recent quarter.
8/24/2024: Boeing Capsule to Return From ISS Uncrewed, Astronauts to Stay Until 2025, PCMag
The essential context for this piece was how a decade ago, many people in Washington wanted Boeing to get the only contract to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. In the alternate universe in which SpaceX got shut out of that bidding, Russia would have had a horrifying amount of leverage over NASA. Especially right now.
#Boeing #CaliforniaJournalismPreservationAct #CrewDragon #GoogleNews #InternationalSpaceStation #linkTax #nasa #SpaceX #Starliner
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California Folds: Agrees to $55 Million Google Fund Model
History repeats itself as Google has tentatively agreed with California to a fund model just like Canada.
https://www.freezenet.ca/california-folds-agrees-to-55-million-google-fund-model/
#Copyright #News #California #CaliforniaJournalismPreservationAct #CJPA #Google #Meta