New Zealand is looking to introduce a bill where Google and Facebook would pay media outlets for news content.

The bill is followed by a similar one from Australia in 2021, which initially Facebook refused and blocked all news content from its platform.

But will there be any benefit for New Zealand’s media?

Produced By: Xinchen Li

Featured In Story: Peter Thompson – Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington

First aired on The Wire, Friday 23 December 2022