Stop whining about Facebook and Google and learn from them, media companies told
Traditional media companies need to stop “whining” about the rise of Google and Facebook and accept that they were out-competed, one of the world’s leading media observers has suggested.
Jeff Jarvis, professor at City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, was in Australia to mark the launch of UTS’s new Centre for Media Transition.
Asked about whether Google and Facebook should face a tax on their profits to fund public interest journalism, Jarvis, author of the book What Would Google Do?, argued that media players should be seeking to learn from the digital behemoths, but not blame them for their falling revenues.