BIG TECH content aggregators should give a “fair share of revenues” to digital platforms of print news publishers and there was a need to address the “disproportionate imbalance” in this dynamic, the Government said Friday.
In his message read out at the inaugural session of a day-long conclave organised by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra linked this to the “future of journalism.”
Speaking from Bengaluru, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, also underlined this imperative.
Flagging the strained financial health of not just the digital news industry but the parent print news industry as well, post-Covid, Chandra said. “For the growth of the news industry, it is important that digital news platforms of all these publishers, who are the creators of…
