News Corp. strikes Google deal for WSJ, Barron, MarketWatch.com content

News Corp. announced Wednesday that it has agreed to a multi-year partnership with Google to provide journalism from its news sites in return for significant payments.

Among the publications joining Google News Showcase will be The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com.

The landmark three-year agreement also includes the development of a subscription platform, the sharing of ad revenue via Google’s ad technology services, the cultivation of audio journalism and meaningful investments in innovative video journalism by YouTube.

Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp., said that the deal would have “a positive impact on journalism around the globe as we have firmly established that there should be a premium for premium journalism.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.