by WorldTribune Staff, March 2, 2018 The digital advertising dominance of Google and Facebook and their ever-changing algorithms are putting independent publishers at a severe disadvantage and U.S. regulators should step in, News Corp. Chief Executive Officer Robert Thomson said. “It’s fair to say I have algorithm angst,” Thomson said. His concerns have been echoed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2017 News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch is spearheading the news industry’s war against tech and social media giants Facebook and Google, which have “eaten journalism’s business model and forever changed how readers consume information,” an analysis said. “Stories in recent months highlighting Facebook and Google’s fraught role in the election […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2017 A major media “cartel” has taken control of what had been privately-owned U.S. news companies, Pulitzer Prize winning media specialist Ben Bagdikian said. The trend leaves small community newspapers and broadcast companies as outposts for independent American journalism. Six corporations now own 90 percent of U.S. news media outlets. […]
