Extra! Extra! Read All About It! How the Media Bit Back in the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and What It Means for Media Diversity in Australia

Matthew Lees

Competition Policy International News

Matthew Lees, ‘Extra! Extra! Read All About It! How the Media Bit Back in the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and What It Means for Media Diversity in Australia‘ (CPI News, 27 October 2019)

While the final report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) in its digital platforms inquiry addresses various important issues relating to digital platforms, the inquiry is perhaps more revealing for what it tells us about the relationship between competition policy and another industry: news media and journalism. … [footnote omitted]