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Press Gazette Google News Article Shows Early Warning About Search Engines Rewarding Copying Over Original Reporting

This archived screenshot preserves Andrew Pugh’s Press Gazette article “News agency chief: Why Google News doesn’t work”, reporting Michael Leidig’s criticism of the way Google News treated original agency journalism. The item is significant because it shows that long before the BuzzFeed dispute, Leidig was already warning that search-driven distribution could punish original reporting while rewarding later copies, rewrites or syndicated versions that appeared more prominently online. The article matters in the wider CEN/newsX evidence chain because it documents the same underlying problem that later became central to the BuzzFeed case: online systems often struggle to identify who actually originated a story, who merely repeated it, and what editorial labour went into producing it. Read alongside the wider material on agency attribution, Google, viral distribution and AI/search extraction, this screenshot helps show that CEN’s concerns were not simply defensive arguments after BuzzFeed’s allegations, but part of a long-running critique of a digital media economy that separated journalism from recognition, traffic and payment.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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