Australia's world-first deal between Meta and news collapses, so what's next?

The social media giant's moved on and won't renew its media deals in Australia. Now publishers are scrambling for a Plan B. Here's a big idea...

There’s nothing like a momentous collision of Big Tech and Big Media to stir up new subscribers.

The newsletter experienced its largest surge in activity ever after Meta made its announcement to axe its Government-imposed payments to publishers on Friday.

Rather than rush out a note, I took a gentleman’s pause, speaking to many across news, politics, tech…