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Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 7:24 PM
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Next week, the US
Senate will conduct a hearing on antitrust issues facing the journalism
sector, entitled “Breaking the News -- Journalism, Competition and the
Effects of Market Power on a Free Press,” reports John Eggerton of Next
TV. The hearing comes in advance of proposed legislation to protect
publishers in an online and social publishing landscape filled with
potential legal landmines. Eggerton writes that the “Journalism
Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), ... would grant publishers
immunity from federal and state antitrust laws for a 48-month period
while they bargain collectively with digital platforms.”
The
bill is seeing bipartisan support in the Senate, cosponsored by Senators
John Kennedy (R-LA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). The House Antitrust
Subcommittee is taking up a similar bill, led by committee chair David
Cicilline (D-RI), who “has argued that if the balance of power remains
as it is, Big Tech’s dominance of digital advertising could be an
‘extinction-level event’ for local media.” Read more here.
Hotel
Software in the Newsroom
Some publishers are turning to new
IT solutions to manage operations that have become increasingly complex
in the post-2020 workplace. Sara Guaglione of Digiday reports that
“publishers have turned to workplace software companies like Envoy and
Condeco as a platform for reserving desks, gathering data on office
usage and, in some cases, tracking employees’ vaccination status.”
Hoteling software is proving useful in this new reality because it can,
as Guaglione says, “provide employees with the ability to reserve
available desk space when assigned desks are no longer the case” and
help publishing managers “to adjust to the reality that all employees
wouldn’t be coming into the office five days a week.” Read more here.
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