Around 30 European and North American media outlets yesterday joined a coalition launched by Britain’s BBC, Sky News and The Guardian, aiming to secure fair payment for news content from artificial intelligence giants.

New members of the SPUR Coalition include France’s CMA Media, Switzerland’s Ringier and Canadian groups including The Globe and Mail and CBC/Radio Canada.

“The world’s leading publishers are determined to open a new chapter in their relationship with technology platforms and public authorities,” CMA deputy chief Jean-Christophe Tortora told a gathering of global news publishers’ association WAN-IFRA in southern French city Marseille.

He called for “a ‘new deal’ based on fair value sharing, content protection and the defence of reliable and independent journalism”.

SPUR was co-founded by the BBC, Financial Times, Guardian Media Group, Sky News, Telegraph Media and Belgium’s Mediahuis, which operates in several European countries.

Tortora urged French President Emmanuel Macron to raise the publishers’ concerns at this month’s meeting of G7 leaders in Evian, eastern France.

The three-day WAN-IFRA meeting was dominated by the media sector’s fears about whether its business model can survive the emergence of artificial intelligence.

“Tech giants strip-mine news websites without permission or compensation” to provide training data for large language models, New York Times publisher Arthur Gregg Sulzberger told the congress on Monday.