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In early 2024, Australia’s world-first news media bargaining turned 3, meaning that many of the deals Google and Meta have done with Australian news media businesses expired. Worth well over $200m annually, these deals have prompted a host of other jurisdictions to follow suit. Yet critics argue the code is flawed, unfair and lacks transparency.
CMT's Sacha Molitorisz speaks with ex-ACCC chair Rod Sims, Columbia journalism scholar Anya Schiffrin, and author and consultant Hal Crawford about the code and its impact, three years on and beyond.