‘It had negative unintended consequences’: Maxime Cohen on the Online News Act and the changing economics of news

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30 Jan 25

On this special episode of Hub Dialogues, publisher Rudyard Griffiths speaks with Maxime Cohen, Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail at McGill University, about his in-depth study about the Online News Act, its negative impact on Canadian newsrooms, and the future of news and journalism in Canada.

You can read the in-depth study on the Online News Act here.

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