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Noah Secomb and Lucinda Garbutt-Young

'Journalism matters': tech giants to share media money

The news bargaining incentive pushes companies like Facebook to pay for publishers' content. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian media companies will receive a greater slice of tech giants' revenue under a government bid to secure the journalism sector, with Labor now close to implementing its news bargaining incentive laws.

The government's proposed laws will push companies like Google, Meta and TikTok to strike commercial deals with news organisations to use the publishers' content on their platforms.

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