Google signs deal to launch journalism fund in California, while cash from its Canadian media fund has yet to flow

Google awaits the CRTC go-ahead for $100-million-a-year Canadian media fund as news outlets call for urgent access to cash.

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge, flanked by other Liberal MPs, speaks with reporters after the government reached a deal with Google for an exemption to the Online News Act on Nov. 29, 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SOPHALL DUCH

September 16, 2024

Google has reached a multi-million-dollar deal with California to fund newsrooms in that American state, echoing a similar deal the tech giant made in Canada late last year.

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