Microsoft News have shared over $1B with its publishing partners since 2014

Microsoft News reaches more than 550 million people in 180 countries every month across MSN, Bing, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft News apps and many mobile manufacturers and third-party distribution partners. Microsoft News does not create any original news content, instead, it licenses content from 4,500+ global publishing partners. Microsoft News today announced that it has shared over $1B with 4,500+ global publishing partners since 2014. Microsoft News team also mentioned that it is investing in the core platform and distribution partnerships to ensure that publishing partners’ content can reach more people, on more devices, in more languages and geographies than ever before. 

Microsoft today also announced new steps to preserve and protect journalism and local newsrooms, you can read about it in detail here.

Source: Microsoft