ANALYSIS: BigTech's takeover of distribution. How September 11th sparked the origins of Google News

Our information ecosystem is in trouble. Here’s how we can fix it. Part II By Tessa Sproule FROM THE MID-90s until September 2001, the web was largely a ‘nice to have’ for most legacy media organizations. When it came to infrastructure spending, faced with a decision to invest in a new suite of cameras for the field or a robust server farm, investing in the tools of creation would win every time. I had been working within the CBC’s first web efforts since 1996. At CBC.ca, we had managed traffic in the thousands, occasionally hundreds of thousands. In the days...