Inside Radio reported earlier this month that a bill that would help broadcasters have more negotiating power when facing tech giants like Google was showing signs of life. Now an update has been drafted to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (S. 673) that is designed to win support for the bill. But it also scales back some of the benefits potentially available to broadcasters.
The foundation of the bill remains the same, however. The bill would allow news publishers and broadcast news operations with fewer than 1,500 exclusive full-time employees to form joint negotiation entities to collectively negotiate with a covered platform over the terms and conditions of the tech platform’s access to digital news content. The bill would also…
