{"id":16459,"date":"2025-05-01T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=16459"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:46:52","slug":"canadian-journalism-payouts-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/canadian-journalism-payouts-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Just-Announced Canadian Journalism Payments Show Proof of Concept for JCPA, Similar US Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arlington, VA &#8211; Yesterday, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he Canadian Journalism Collective <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cjc-ccj.ca\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that they have started distributing payments to publishers from Google\u2019s payment under Canada\u2019s Online News Act. 108 publishers have received payment, totaling over C$22 million, with payments as high as C$4.27 million to individual publishers. This is a partial payment for the first year, estimated to be 60% of their annual payment. The News\/Media Alliance has confirmed that publishers have been receiving these payments to their accounts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Danielle Coffey, President and CEO of the News\/Media Alliance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, said, \u201cThese funds not only represent a significant victory for journalism in Canada, they also offer proof that the platform compensation model within Canada\u2019s Online News Act, which also underlies the federal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalism Competition and Preservation Act<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and state bills like the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oregon Journalism Protection Act<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a viable and compelling option for American markets as well. Publishers deserve to be compensated when major tech platforms profit from their work, and Canada\u2019s example proves that this model will work for publishers in the United States and start to reverse the damage that the Big Tech platforms have wreaked on the American news ecosystem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The News\/Media Alliance has been advocating for legislation based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/release-canadian-news-publishers-reach-deal-with-google-for-payment-for-news\/\">Online News Act<\/a> and Australia\u2019s successful News Media Bargaining Code, including <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.oregonlegislature.gov\/liz\/2025R1\/Measures\/Overview\/SB686\">SB 686<\/a> in Oregon, which is scheduled for a committee vote on Monday, May 5; the Illinois Journalism Preservation Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/fulltext.asp?DocName=&amp;SessionId=114&amp;GA=104&amp;DocTypeId=SB&amp;DocNum=1732&amp;GAID=18&amp;LegID=&amp;SpecSess=&amp;Session=\">SB 1732<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/A7178\">A7178\/S4401<\/a> in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 30, the Canadian Journalism Collective announced that they have started distributing payments to publishers from Google\u2019s payment under Canada\u2019s Online News Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":16460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[486,828,1671],"tags":[827],"class_list":["post-16459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-press-releases","category-tech-platforms-a","tag-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}