Tara Deschamps | The Canadian Press
Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to distribute the funds.
The U.S. tech giant said Friday that it had transferred the money to the Canadian Journalism Collective, a federally incorporated non-profit organization led by independent publishers and broadcasters.
Erin Millar, the collective’s interim chair and the chief executive of journalism software firm Indiegraf, confirmed the receipt of the funds. The collective expects the cash to start reaching media businesses whose work was shared or repurposed by Google by the end of January.
