Largest
Australian media company so far to sign on with
Google ahead of parliamentary debate of news code
Australia’s biggest locally-owned media company, Nine Entertainment, has signed a deal with Google worth a reported $30m a year to feature its news in Google products, on the eve of the historic news media laws being debated in parliament.
The deal with the largest Australian media company so far comes as treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the government has “held the line and held it strongly” against the threats of Google and
Facebook to pull their services from Australia if the news media bargaining code was implemented.