Times of San Diego - Google Saving Local Journalism or Dooming It?

Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Director Courtney Radsch is cited in the Times of San Diego for her testimony before the California Senate Judiciary Committee on ways to preserve journalism in the digital age.

Among the panelists taking the side of legacy news operations, including TV stations, was Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, who also works as a fellow at the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy.

“The crisis facing journalism is not a problem of the news industry’s own making or of the internet,” she said. “It is a result of legal regulatory frameworks that privilege tech platforms over the press and give the former unfettered power to set the rules.”

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