Big Tech versus journalism: Publishers watch Australia fight with bated breath
19 Feb, 2021 04:34 AM
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Facebook has blocked the sharing of news in Australia. Video / NZ Herald
Financial Times
Consequences of Facebook and Google s radically different approaches unclear for other news groups. In trying to force a new economic settlement between the news industry and Big Tech, did the Australian government just save journalism or break it?
Facebook and Google on Wednesday posted drastically different responses to a proposed new Australian law designed to channel some of their vast profits into the pockets of news publishers. These sent reverberations through the global news business and threw down a challenge to politicians around the world, some of whom view the Australian experiment as a model for how to reset the economics of online news inside their own borders.
LAPD investigating report of George Floyd Valentine card
15 Feb, 2021 05:14 PM
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George Floyd died while being arrested in May 2020 after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. Photo / Christopher Harris, AP, File
George Floyd died while being arrested in May 2020 after a store clerk alleged he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. Photo / Christopher Harris, AP, File
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The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an internal investigation after an officer reported that a photo of George Floyd with the words You take my breath away in a Valentine-like format was circulated among officers.
Rep Talk: Joana Simmons a breath of fresh air
14 Feb, 2021 10:25 PM
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Joana Simmons performs Spiritual Banana at repertory Theatre this Friday. Photo / Reuben Janes
Wanganui Midweek
What a breath of fresh air!
I really enjoyed talking with Joana Simmons, a young woman that I knew some years ago when she played the lead role of Cinderella in Rep Theatre s pantomime. We spent a few moments reminiscing. When was that production? That was in 2006, Joana told me. In 2010 I moved to Melbourne to study dance and performing arts, gaining a scholarship in my second year.
Upon graduation at the end of 2011 Joana worked as a professional dancer providing back-up for Delta Goodrem, the Logie Awards, music videos and in children s entertainment.