Today we’re announcing the launch of the News Equity Fund, a global effort to support news organizations that serve underrepresented communities.
Apply by July 21 for funding to support and expand your news operations!
Looking for new ways to grow your revenue and deepen reader relationships?
Today we're launching Reader Revenue Manager, a new product for publishers with tools to help increase audience engagement and convert new subscribers or contributors.
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We’re launching a new survey feature that allows publishers to ask their readers questions to better understand their audience, enabling more relevant ads and content!
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Email newsletters remain an important channel for publishers to connect with audiences. Our new tool, Reader Revenue Manager, can help your publication grow your newsletter audience. Your data is private and secure and will never be processed by Google. ➡️
Convert your readers into subscribers or contributors in 2-clicks with our new product, Reader Revenue Manager. Our fast and secure checkout flow removes payment friction and can be integrated to your site with no coding experience required. Learn more:
We are proud to partner with
@VerificadoMX
to help prevent misinformation in the Mexican
#Elecciones2018
🇲🇽
Bots and Trolls Elbow Into Mexico’s Crowded Electoral Field
On
#InternationalFactCheckingDay
, we're committing $6.5M to help fight
#COVID19
misinformation around the world. This funding will be used to support fact-checkers and nonprofits, increase their access to information, and more. →
Today we're launching the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund, a global effort to help local newsrooms in a time of need. This program will deliver financial support to small and medium-sized news organizations around the world. (1/6)
Today, we are excited to share that more than 450 news organizations across 52 countries have been selected as recipients of the News Equity Fund.
Learn more: 🧵(1/2)
We’re committing $2.3M in funding to support 18 news organizations through the second Asia Pacific Innovation Challenge. Selected projects focus on increasing reader engagement.
Over the next couple weeks we’re rolling out a redesigned News tab in Search on desktop. The refreshed design makes publisher names more prominent and organizes articles more clearly to help you find the news you need. Check it out 👇
Quality journalism is critical to our societies. Today we’re launching Journalist Studio, a suite of tools that uses technology to help reporters do their work more efficiently, securely and creatively, and two new products for reporters. 1/
Since 2018, we’ve supported more than 6,250 news partners in 118 countries through $189 million in global funding, programs, tools and resources. Our first GNI Impact Report examines the impact of this work. →
Today we’re announcing that Google News Showcase, our new product experience and licensing program for news, will begin rolling out with local, national and independent publishers in the U.K. and Argentina ->
We launched the Google News Initiative in 2018 to help the news industry thrive in a digital age. Since then we’ve:
+ Worked with 7,000+ news partners in 120+ countries and territories worldwide
+ Trained 450K+ journalists
+ Invested $300M+ in funding
Google Earth Studio is a new animation tool using Google Earth’s satellite and 3D imagery. Sign up to preview
Introducing Earth Studio! An animation tool for
@googleearth
imagery. Sign up to preview today at
With the news moving faster than ever, it's clear that journalism is an essential way to keep people informed. Today we are excited to announce we are rolling out an initial version of Google News Showcase to benefit users and publishers in Australia. 1/
Ensuring people have access to quality news is a core part of our work — and so is finding ways to support the news industry. So we asked five members of the News team to tell us what they're working on in 2021. Here’s what they said. 1/
Together with
@INMAorg
, we're launching Elevate Scholarships for under-represented groups in media. Through the scholarships, we aim to equip new faces and voices with strong news industry fundamentals as well as networking and mentoring opportunities.
.
@afronews
is the oldest, family-owned, African American publisher in the United States. For 130 years, they’ve provided news about the Black Community not otherwise found. See how they partnered with the Google News Initiative to grow digital revenue ▶
In partnership with journalists and fact checkers, the Google News Initiative supported company, uses AI to help identify disinformation and reduce its harmful impact on society.
The need for people to have access to trustworthy information is critical. To support readers and publishers, we are announcing investments in India by rolling out Google News Showcase and introducing new GNI programs to train and support journalists. 1/
Any journalists out there? 👋
@GoogleNewsInit
is offering a series of free online training in 9 languages to help you tell your stories! 📰💻📻
Learn how to find, & visualise data, verify facts, use geo tools and much more. 📈☑️🌎
To sign up, ➡️
🇦🇺 Two Australian journalists from
@MediaDiverseAU
saw an immediate need for representation in the country’s broadcasting industry.
Because everyone benefits when the storytellers truly represent Australia’s diversity.
To learn more, visit →
How to embed
@GoogleTrends
realtime charts:
1. Click ‘< >’ on the visual you want to embed. (You’ll see a pop-up like below.)
2. Click ‘Keep data updated’ if you want the visual to keep updating, or uncheck it if you want to freeze it.
3. Copy the embed code for your CMS!
“We dreamed of having a media that represented the Black population. A media that joined the fight against prejudice. A media that denounced racism.”
@Alma_Preta
is working to make that dream a reality.
Learn more here →
Nationwide, the job of gathering & monetizing
#news
is increasingly difficult.
That’s why we’ve worked with 2,000+ local publishers across the U.S., providing funding, training, products, & resources.
See the ways Google is helping local news:
We’re proud to announce the launch of the News Equity Fund, a global effort to support news organizations that serve underrepresented communities. Apply by July 21 for funding to support and expand your news operations!
New tool alert 🎉 We've updated our Data GIF Maker with three new templates that make it easy for anyone turn numbers into customized
#data
visualizations.
Try it out and make your own in under 5 minutes→
In today’s media ecosystem, misinformation cannot be fought alone. That's why Indonesian media created
@cekfaktacom
—a collaborative platform where publishers, journalists, and fact-checkers share resources to fight misinformation together.
Watch ▶
Journalists in Mexico are using real-time
@GoogleTrends
data and other tools to combat false news surrounding the upcoming
#Elecciones2018
Learn more about the collaboration
→
#Verificado18
Original journalism requires time and investment, but it can have a big impact on our communities and conversations. Read more about the steps Google's taking to highlight original reporting in Search →
💻 Over the coming weeks, we'll offer a number of free week-long training series on YouTube Live to help journalists grow their digital reporting skills.
🌎 Training will be available in multiple languages & time zones.
➡️ Visit to find dates & links.
#APAC
News Publishers: We’re hosting a Search Fundamentals training on 22 November!
Join us at either 10 am OR 1 pm SGT to learn more about how News works at Google.
Register now:
Available today! In collaboration with
@ejcnet
, we’re excited to announce the launch of the second Data Journalism Handbook edited by
@jwyg
and
@bb_liliana
. Check out the digital copy to read chapters by data journalists from around the world
#GNILondon
Together with the
#Digipub
News India Foundation and global innovation lab
#Echos
, we are thrilled to announce the participants of the first-ever
#GoogleNewsInitiative
Startups Lab India.
Meet them here:
We highlight fact checks from authoritative sources on Google Search and
@googlenews
to help provide context as people access information online. These fact checks receive 11 million impressions a day, or 4 billion impressions a year.
Today we’re proud to announce the
#GoogleNewsInitiative
, our mission to enable journalism to thrive in the digital age. You can find out more on - and we’ll post regular updates to our work on this twitter account.
Let's build a stronger future for news. With the
#GoogleNewsInitiative
, we're collaborating with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age →
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Google News Initiative. Over the next two weeks we’ll share updates from the past year and what’s to come.
Learn more about what we’ve been working on at
We're looking for ways to provide financial support to news organizations around the world during the
#COVID19
pandemic. That's why we've decided to waive ad serving fees for news publishers globally on
@GoogleAdManager
for five months.
We've upgraded our training website, to help journalists around the world learn more about the digital tools they can use to tell their stories. Now in more languages, and with an option to track your own progress through 50+ lessons, take a look at →
We’re inviting newsrooms around the world to start using Google Earth Studio a new animation tool that uses Google Earth’s satellite and 3D imagery.
Sign up to preview the tool at
Shouldn't doing great editorial work be enough? We think so, and that's why the we've partnered with
@WordPress
to invest $1.2M in its effort to create Newspack: a fast, secure, low-cost publishing system tailor-made to the needs of small newsrooms →
The Journalism Emergency Relief Fund is a global effort to help local newsrooms in a time of need. After receiving over 12,000 applications from 140 countries, we’re distributing emergency funding to over 5,300 local newsrooms around the world.
We’ve selected and notified the first recipients for the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund. If you haven't heard back yet, stay tuned. We’re still reviewing applications, and will share further updates with applicants in the coming weeks.
If you're a publisher looking to invest in mobile app strategy, join the Early Access period for the Flutter News Toolkit to ensure your content is reaching your audiences where they are with less development work.
Learn more: 🧵(1/4)
Google News Showcase, our new product and licensing program that brings a publisher's voice and curation into our news products, is coming to desktop users of Google News in the countries where we are launched -> 1/
“Hey Google, tell me something good." Starting today, Google Assistant users in the U.S. can learn about people who are solving problems for our communities and our world in a news update curated by
@soljourno
. Learn more at
What an awesome video made with
@GoogleEarth
Studio!
Journalists, we’re inviting newsrooms around the world to start using the tool. To learn more and sign up, visit .
We're excited to partner with
@DigipubIndia
and
@escoladt
to launch the GNI Startups Lab India, which will help a selection of 10 early stage news businesses achieve financial sustainability.
Get your application in before October 18th:
No coding experience is necessary to use
@f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h
, a free data visualization tool designed for newsrooms. Learn how to use the tool and customize templates to show the stories that matter most during our quick 7 minute training -->
Today we announced the
#GoogleNewsInitiative
Cloud Program to help news organizations boost productivity, collaboration & business growth. Starting today, news orgs with up to 500 employees can apply for free G Suite licenses for up two years. More at
Starting today, the Google News Initiative
@YouTube
Innovation Funding applications are open through Oct 12. News organizations around the world can apply for grants to support building stronger video capabilities and innovating with video formats at
Applications open for the
@GoogleNewsInit
Newsroom Leadership Program w/
@columbiajourn
- a free, yearlong part-time program to equip senior journalists in the Asia-Pacific with the skills to lead technology and data-driven newsrooms. Apply at
Finding quality datasets on the go can be a roadblock. Google Public Data Explorer helps you find, interpret and share aggregated datasets from trusted sources to help you create sophisticated visualizations. Check out the tool
Looking for new ways to engage your audience and monetize your content? Today we're expanding access to our reader revenue product!
Click here to sign up and learn more 🧵(1/2)
We're partnering with
@berkeleyside
to launch a new Oakland, California based journalism venture. This represents the third site for our Local Experiments Project, an initiative to support local news. Read more →
We’re excited to announce the recipients of the GNI
@YouTube
innovation funding! These broadcasters, publishers, agencies and creators share a commitment to quality journalism & a drive to experiment with video storytelling. More at
Check out our tool kit for investigative journalists in the digital age. The 9 course training covers tools including Google Search,
@GoogleScholar
, Google Public Data Explorer,
@GoogleMaps
, and
@GoogleEarth
at
Build your brand value across Google’s surfaces. Our new product, Reader Revenue Manager, was designed for publishers to help increase engagement by highlighting their content to readers during contextually relevant moments in Google products.
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Congratulations 🎉 to the 40 young journalists in the 2019 Google News Initiative Fellowship cohort. As a part of the program with
@ejcnet
, they will join data, product, audience development and fact-checking teams in newsrooms across Europe →
New tool alert 🎉
The team that created News Consumer Insights has a free new tool. Real Time Content Insights was built to help newsrooms make quick, data-driven decisions on content creation and distribution. Check it out →
Who are your readers? Learn more about your casual skimmers, loyal readers, and brand lovers by turning your
@googleanalytics
data into actionable insights.
Interested? Get your News Consumer Insights report here →
Journalists, reporters, and health authorities worldwide use Google resources for data, insights, and scientific expertise.
With
#FactCheckingDay
on the horizon (April 2), we’re pinning 📌 the fact-checking tools 🛠 (and more) available every day at .
“We’re doubling down on our efforts to collaborate...to help news organizations do more of what they do best - uncover and report the news.”
@grove
, Director of Google News Lab
#GoogleNewsInitiative
. Learn more @