A Missed Opportunity for Media Giants to Partner for Content Licensing

The speaker suggested partnering with other media companies to create an association that would license premium content to a single player, such as Google or Microsoft./nThis suggestion was rejected by the New York Times board due to concerns of antitrust issues./nThe board instead chose to allow Google and other companies to freely crawl their data, leading to a shift towards an advertising-focused business model./nThe speaker believes this decision was a major mistake and the New York Times should course-correct by implementing a metered paywall.