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Hello from sunny Sydney where we literally live in the future because it’s tomorrow here already. And on that note, welcome to new readers from all over the world.
Welcome then to the European Policy Centre in Brussels, The Open Markets Institute focusing on competition policy in New York, America’s Associated Press and Washington Post, Radio Canada, the UK’s Independent, several new faces from Agence France Presse, and Yahoo France (in answer to your question Eric, my wife says she would live in Paris 🥐 🧀 🥖), Polish media giants TVP, Fakt and Medonet, Slovenia’s major publishing group PetitPress, as well as Australia’s largest media company Nine Entertainment.
And welcome too, to The London School of Economics’ JournalismAI, which is part-funded by the Google News Initiative. So, let’s begin there.
With Google…
