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Google launches News Showcase

Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.

Google today launched Google News Showcase. The tech giant will pay news publishers 鈥渢o create and curate high-quality content鈥 for Google News. We hear from Jeff Elgie, CEO of Village Media, a Canadian online news publisher that has signed up. Soft drink giant PepsiCo says it's considering making alcoholic beverages - a day after arch rival Coca-Cola said it would do the same. Jennifer Maloney of the Wall Street Journal explains why the companies are looking at alcohol. California has passed a law mandating public companies headquartered in the state to have at least one board member from an underrepresented community by the end of 2021, with a further increase the following year. We get reaction from the Latino Corporate Directors Association. Ivory Coast and Ghana have added a premium to the cocoa price to boost farmers' incomes. In a special report we hear how the Living Income Differential is expected to work. And a number of universities in the UK have recently paid influencers to promote degrees at their institutions. Influencers who haven't actually been to those universities. We here from Grace Bee - one of the influencers who was paid by one of those universities.

All this and more discussed with our two guests throughout the show: Erin Delmore, a political journalist in New York and Madhavan Narayanan, a journalist and columnist in New Delhi.

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Fri 2 Oct 2020 00:06GMT

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