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The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers

Nieman Journalism Lab · Sophie Culpepper · last updated
Last month, Google and California struck a groundbreaking, controversial deal to funnel almost $250 million into the state’s journalism over five years (while shoehorning in…an AI accelerator), sidestepping a more sweeping effort to force Google and Meta to pay news publishers.

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