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Dow Jones chief accuses Google and Facebook of "killing news"

on Dec 1, 2016 | 0 comments

By Ian Burrell

Seated in the dining room of a Belle Époque-era London hotel, the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company briefly draws attention to his new vegetable-based diet before launching into a spleen-venting explanation of why he has had an utter bellyful of the two great gatekeepers of the modern media age, Facebook and Google, and accusing them of “killing news”.

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Source: The Drum