Irish publishers are to begin negotiations with Google over payment for news articles, Independent.ie understands. However, the government backed off when the two tech giants signed payment deals with that country’s biggest publishers. Google’s global vice president of news, Richard Gingras, said today that newspaper payment deals range from “five figures to seven figures” depending on the size of the publisher. However, he said that Google will make no money from its payment deals with news publishers but is instead engaging with them to subsidise a “healthy ecosystem”. The payment deals have divided the tech and media industries, with some tech commentators decrying the deals as subsidies.

Source: Irish Independent March 03, 2021 18:52 UTC