Sacramento | Google will soon give California millions of dollars to help pay for local journalism jobs in a first-in-the-nation deal, but journalists and other media industry experts are calling it a disappointing agreement that mostly benefits the tech giant.

The agreement, which was hashed out behind closed doors and announced last week, will direct tens of millions of dollars of public and private funds to keep local news organisations afloat. Critics say it’s a textbook political manoeuvre by tech giants to avoid a fee under what could have been groundbreaking legislation.

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