"This publication considers the range of policy changes that have been tried or recommended by global regulators, assessing their impacts on press freedom and news media sustainability, with consideration for the risk of capture, and other potential tradeoffs of these interventions. It examines four categories of interventions: related to taxes and direct subsidies; copyright and licensing; competition and antitrust regulation; and transparency. Each piece discusses the driving concept behind each intervention, its advantages to publishers, how these benefits are distributed and how decisions are made regarding them, potential government involvement in each one, and their ability to address key underlying challenges related to news media sustainability. Our research also emphasizes the interrelationships between these policies and their broader effect on the platformatization of journalism. However, given that these interventions are in their early stages, or in some cases are still theoretical, a dearth of data makes it difficult to conclusively assess their impacts on media sustainability, media freedom and access to news. Where data asymmetries exist related to these questions, they are noted as areas for further research and potential regulatory attention." (Introduction, page 2-3)
Introduction: Best of Frenemies / Courtney Radsch, Michael Karanicolas, 1
Platform Transparency for News Sustainability / Alessia Zornetta, Lin Wang, 8
Copyright, Licensing and Collective Bargaining Approaches towards News Sustainability / Zoë Brown, Akshat Agarwal, 23
Subsidy Based Approaches towards News Sustainability / Caroline Belanger-Hilaire, Andrea Capone, Valeria Gerber Mariscal, 38
Antitrust-based Solutions for News Media Sustainability / Ishika Manglik, Maria Munoz Rojas, Nathan Siegel, Tejas Gulati, Jack Mitchener, 56