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Media Roundup: Patreon joins unicorn club, Facebook could ban news in Australia, more

Over the past few months, weve launched features like Decrypted, Deep Science and The Exchange, which aggregate and analyze the latest news in a given sector, so it seemed overdue to do something similar for media.

The goal is to provide a regular update on what entrepreneurs in the content or advertising business should be thinking about.

That doesnt just mean startup funding well track the broader landscape, including platform policies that could affect everyone which is just as important as knowing whos getting checks.

This is part of an ongoing dispute between Facebook and the Australian government, which has created a plan that would require Facebook and Google to share revenue with Australian news publishers whose content appears on their services. Both companies have a complicated relationship with the news business, with many publishers both relying on large platforms for traffic while also resenting the fact that those platforms take the vast majority of digital ad revenue.

In an attempt to improve that relationship, Google and Facebook have committed in recent years to investing hundreds of millions of dollars in journalism and while those efforts are commendable, its worth asking whether publishers should be entitled to more by law, not just as a gift.

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Author: Anthony Ha

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