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Supported by a grant from the Open Markets Institute’s Center for Journalism and Liberty, Dan Froomkin wrote for the Washington Monthly [[link removed]] on how Bezos’ control of Arc XP digs an even deeper hole for a news industry already reeling from Google and Facebook’s monopolization of online advertising. Thanks to Arc’s ownership structure, a growing number of America’s struggling newspapers - both large and small - now pay millions to one of the world’s richest men for use of a publishing system that leverages data from users, publishers and advertisers.

This one-on-one conversation will largely focus on three areas:

• The nuanced difficulties for news organizations to remain competitive in today’s transitory media environment, in light of changing technology and advertising revenue that largely enriches dominating platforms

• Harms and opportunities presented by Arc XP, given its reliance on data gathered from publishers, subscribers and advertisers

• A call for Bezos to convert Arc XP into an open-source publishing solution to provide technological stability to news providers across the nation.

RSVP [[link removed]] Streaming on these platforms [[link removed]] DAN FROOMKIN

Dan Froomkin [[link removed]], who runs the independent nonprofit Press Watchers [[link removed]], is a trailblazer in the area of online accountability journalism with more than two decades of experience building, editing and contributing to websites including the Huffington Post, The Intercept, and the Nieman Foundation's Watchdog Project. Over 12 years at the Washington Post, he served as editor of the website and wrote its enormously popular White House Watch column, which aggregated and amplified insightful political coverage.

ELLEN GOODMAN

Distinguished Professor Ellen P. Goodman [[link removed]] of Rutgers Law School specializes in information policy law, including media policy, privacy, data ethics, advertising, and digital platform power. She is co-director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law is a senior fellow at the Digital Innovation & Democracy Institute, part of the German Marshall Fund, and a Knight Foundation grantee focused on platform regulation and transparency.

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