- Posted on 1 Nov 2019
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News media innovation, and Richard Gingras, VP Google News, visits CMT
Derek Wilding, Co-Director, Centre for Media Transition
First up this week, CMT has released its new report News Media Innovation 2020, researched and written by CMT Senior Fellow Jacqui Park.
The report is based on in-depth interviews with more than 70 practitioners and readings of their real-time comments in blogs, speeches and articles. Jacqui launched the report to an international audience at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Asia conference in Hong Kong, where she was also a panelist for Women in News: New strategies and new leadership for revenue generation. Read more about the Innovation Report in CMT activities below.
Meanwhile here at UTS, journalism innovation champion Richard Gingras, Google's Vice President of News spoke with CMT Co-Director Peter Fray and First Draft Australia Bureau Editor Anne Kruger in front of a live audience about what Google is doing for journalism.
On Tuesday night, Peter Fray opened the event by asking Richard whether he was a Good Santa because Google hands out lots of money to the news industry — or a Bad Santa, because publishers say Google ‘stole’ all their advertising money. You can listen to the conversation with Peter Fray here.
Elsewhere, I co-wrote a comment with Tim Dwyer on the nationwide multi-outlet media campaign on 21 October protesting against harsh restrictions on journalistic freedoms. You can read it here.
Meanwhile CMT's Sacha Molitorisz was interviewed by the ABC about the recent ACCC legal challenge to Google for purportedly misleading customers about its collection of their personal location data. Another reminder to be vigilant for hidden perils that can accompany some forms of innovation.