Does Google want to help journalism?
At a Google briefing with journalists following the company’s financial report, CEO Eric Schmidt said some interesting things about the company’s interest in journalism, although they showed up near the end of this Reuters story. Asked whether the search engine with the $150-billion market value might take a run at Dow Jones, he said:
“We made a decision to focus primarily on user-generated content, and not on businesses where we would own the content.”
But that wasn’t the really interesting part, at least not for me. Later during questions, co-founder Larry Page said that Google wants to “play a role in opening journalism up to more participants,” according to the Reuters story:
“There is some small number doing what you do. That number is probably too small, given the impact that you have on the world and the good that you do,” he said.
“How to get more people working on what you are doing and fund those things?”
Interesting questions, Larry. Maybe you guys should get together with Craig Newmark and Jay Rosen over at NewAssignment.net.
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