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= IB BUSINESS 'TORSTAR ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH GOOGLE NEWS SHOWCASE 5 3 5 JOSH RUBIN 2 josh@thestar.ca 3 2 g é news partnership with < global search giant Google. + Halton signed to give news from trusted publishers a higher profile and help drive traffic include select stories from partner publishers each day, including some that are only available to Subserib- ers on the publis! connect and inform people, anda crucial tool against misinformati News Showcase will bring more of our award-winning local and national reporting to Canadians, and the world,” said Jordan Bitove, Toron- to Star publisher and Tor- star co-owner. "It's an in- vestment into the future of our newsrooms, our top- quality journalism and the future of news." In addition to Torstar, two other publishers — Devoir and Les Coops de Tinformation — are joining forces with Google on Wednesday. Previously an- nounced partners include Black Press Media, Glacier Media, _The Globe and The move comes at a crucial time for both the media and tech industries. media has seen its tra- ditional business model collapsing, with advertis- ing revenue plunging for the last two decades, and subscription revenue not making up the shortfall. Tech giants such as Goo- gle, Facebook and Amazon, meanwhile, have faced in- creasing calls for regula- tion amidst their market Narci Media SaltWire ehiaig Village Media and peg Free Press. Todd C. Hein ner Family/Divorce Lawyer OFFICE LOCATIONS GEORGETOWN 8 Guelph Street &, 905 452 7400 & 905 452 7400 CALEDON EAST & 905 584 4545 Proud member of COCKER +HEINu BARRISTERS + SOLICITORS BRAMPTON OFFICE (Main) 350 Rutherford Road S., Suite 320 15955 Airport Road, Suite 201 LITIGATION ASK THE PROFESSIONAL I am in court due to the breakdown in my marriage. mediation? A Can | still try Absolutely! 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So we are happy to have an initial Zoom meeting or a telephone call without charge to you to see if we can assist you. Have a great weekend. [CeHALTON nines - sus = vy ae the C ig Clients. Enrichi: theifp.ca ‘0 replace or substitute any professional, financial, medical, legal, or other professional advice. Torstar publishes six daily newspapers, than 70 weekly publica. tions, as well a: specialty websites ea ing TheKit.ca and Wheel- s.ca. Les Coop de l'informa- tion publishes six daily French-language newspa- pers in Quebec and eastern Ontario. Publishers receive a set monthly fee for use of their articles, which are given more prominence than a Pexels photo Google News Showcase, which launched Oct. 27 in Canada, is a project designed to give news from top quality publishers such as Torstar a higher profile, and to help drive traffic to publishers’ websites. simple link to a headline. Neither the amount of the monthly fee nor length of the agreement signed by Torstar was disclosed. The pe, said Google executive Brad Bender, is to help drive more readers to publishers’ own web- sites, where they can then become subscribers. “That is a big driver of e program,” said Bender, Google's vice-president of product management for news. Bender said Google News Showcase was devel- oped in collaboration with publishers themselves. ke fee for access to its ser- Bender said Google News Showcase will be free to users. That's something Google has no intention of changing, Bender added. Google News Showcase is available in more than a gegen countries around the world, and includes partnerships with than 1,000 pubucaions ‘ts 'S part of a $1 billion (U.S.) in- vestmentin the globaljour- nalism industry by Google. part of that invest- ment, Google will be train- ing 5,000 Canadian journal- ists over the next three That is on top of the 1, 000 the company says it has al- ready trained. North Halton Kitten Rescue Book Sale! 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