https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/02/google-news-showcase-paywalled-stories/ > Google News Showcase visitors will soon be able to read select paywalled articles at no extra charge. > That’s one of several announcements that the search giant made today about News Showcase, the program where it pays publishers (with $1 billion committed initially) to license their content for a new format in Google News. So far, Google News Showcase has launched in countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, U.K. and Australia — in several cases, those are markets where it’s previously faced legal challenges and antitrust scrutiny.