‘Loosen’ constraints on domestic media instead of holding back Google and Facebook, Ritson tells Senators

The Turnbull government needs to “loosen” constraints on domestic media rather than hold back Google and Facebook as last century’s advertising models come to end, the Future of Public Interest Journalism Senate Inquiry heard in Sydney yesterday.

Speaking before the committee, Melbourne Business School adjunct professor Mark Ritson, said while Google and Facebook have competed “openly and fairly”, government restraints on domestic media have “somewhat” played into the hands of the digital duopoly.

Ritson shared his thoughts on the future of public interest journalism to Senators yesterday