The study produced by News Media Alliance is receiving flack for its shoddy reporting by other journalists. This article, while mentioning NMA did the study, does not even link to the original article or study. I feel this article is an attack on Google by publishers but does not accurately reflect the money Google makes from Google News.

This is an article that starts with sourcing a flawed study paid for by the NMA, which is an organization with an agenda. Then, the article attempts to construe Google's advertising profit without financial statements to back it up, based on a hefty dose of speculation. Finally, the entire article is politically charged, and worded in such a manner as to appeal to emotion for readers of clandestine newsmedia publications. The reality is that we are seeing the death throes of an industry that is failing to adapt, they feel the heat from the digital competition, and are attempting to legislate themselves into relevance by attacking Google. I suppose they thought they could fool someone; otherwise, this is just another NYT article that is not worth reading...

This article doesn't link to the "study" so there is no way to verify the premise. The author mentions News Media Alliance and an economics consulting firm called Keystone Strategy (the NYT is part of this Alliance). There is no background information about either of these organizations. Also, it seems that the data was from 2008. The only direct quotes are from old media execs and a pieced together google quote supposedly from their twitter, but no link to the tweet. The whole article is about how to split revenue. The article only presents the business interest and then tries to wrap that interest into some kind of "greater good." Note quote: “News is an important form of content that sustains civic society,” Mr. Chavern added. “I think everybody, from readers to writers to politicians, understands that if journalism goes away, that’s a horrible outcome for whether we’re able to sustain the republic.” The most important aspect of this article for the average citizen is the fact that this revenue that both old and new media are fighting over is coming from users personal data, yet this is only mentioned in passing. Also of interest is the briefly mentioning of suspending an antitrust law so rich people can get richer...but of course "for the greater good." New York Times...totally biased and overrated.

This article does a surface level job explaining Google's revenue from news content on their platforms. The information is accurate, but it barely scrapes the surface.