Explainer

Facebook is back but where, exactly?

Steve Evans
February 25 2021 - 4:00am

It's not a replacement for the 'rivers of gold' but it's helpful. It goes directly to public interest journalism. It's not to be sneezed at but it doesn't make unviable newspapers viable again.

- Dr Rob Nicholls

A week ago, Facebook dropped its bombshell: it would stop allowing news sites to be seen or shared on its platform in Australia.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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