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Christine SchmidtDecember 10, 2019

Berkeleyside is launching a sister site in Oakland to help fill the void left by pillaged newspapers

“As we build out that newsroom, how do we prioritize people who have experience serving info needs in communities across disciplines?”

Audio archiving, public meeting tracking, and more local boosts: Here are the 34 news projects Google is funding in North America

Joshua BentonOctober 16, 2019

The News Revenue Hub is launching a pilot project to help news orgs increase their readers’ loyalty

You can turn loyal readers into members and subscribers. But first, you have to turn occasional readers into loyal readers.

As regulators investigate, Google is now funding the creation of local news sites in the US and the UK

Christine SchmidtJuly 18, 2019

Local news projects rush to fill The Vindicator’s void, with the McClatchy-Google network putting down roots

“We’re ultimately trying to do this as small and nimble as possible so that we can be seeing what’s working and throw out what’s not — and quickly being able to shift in a way that’s a little bit harder when you’re working with a 150-year-old newspaper.”

Christine SchmidtJune 27, 2019

The Associated Press and Google are building a tool for sharing more local news — more quickly

“We’re living in an age of journalism where people want to help each other and are prioritizing collaboration over competition. We want to seize on that in a way that ensures no matter who is in the newsroom there’s still a mechanism for them to use this.”

Christine SchmidtJune 11, 2019

Mandy Jenkins will build McClatchy’s Google-funded new local sites. What’s her plan?

“A lot of this is taking advantage of what Google has to offer as a partner. They’re tracking all of these interesting trends all the time: what people are looking for and what they’re missing.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 29, 2019

After four years of handing out money for European news projects, Google is expanding its funding to North America

Projects, which should be related to local news or revenue generation, can receive up to $300,000 in funding. As in Europe, the launch comes with talk of government regulation in the air.

Christine SchmidtApril 3, 2019

Why did Google’s Digital News Innovation Fund offer up to €50,000 to a mouthpiece of Hungary’s authoritarian government?

“How Origo, a website staffed by pro-government flunkies, will help Hungarian journalism ‘thrive’ is hard to imagine.”

Google is putting dollars straight into building local news outlets in a new experiment with McClatchy

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