https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/05/21/california-and-google-will-make-a-media-fund-for-the-floundering-news-industry/

An East Bay Democrat in the state Legislature announced the details Wednesday of a hard-fought partnership between California and Google to kick financial assistance toward the state’s news media, an industry that shrunk dramatically in the digital age.

But critics, including a former state senator, say the agreement falls short of earlier proposals that would have forced Google and other tech giants to pay newspaper publishers for using their content or harvesting data.