Big Tech and News Media: Principles for Fair Compensation

The Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy is delighted to have participated in the Big Tech and Journalism Building a Sustainable Future in the Global South conference, which today announced the principles for fair compensation.

The objective of the conference was to develop the broad, global principles for news media sustainability and platform policy reform, in order to aid in developing regulations that reinforce digital platforms’ and news providers’ responsibility to trade with one another on fair terms.

The Big Tech and Journalism – Building a Sustainable Future for the Global South conference was held from 13-14 July 2023 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg, and was hosted by the GIBS Media Leadership Think Tank. The conference brought together a global network of journalists, news publishers, media organizations, academics, activists, lawyers and economists from 24 countries. Together, they jointly proposed the following principles for fair compensation, which can be found here.