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Hanaa' TameezJuly 8, 2020

The Startups Lab bootcamp by LION and the Google News Initiative aims to train news entrepreneurs

“Journalists are natural skeptics, except when it comes to their own idea about their business plan.”

Alan SoonMarch 26, 2020

Coronavirus got you housebound? Here’s how Splice quickly pulled together an online streaming event

“We’re calling it the Splice Low-Res Festival, because it’s a quick and dirty idea and we all know video conferences can be pretty fuzzy…We’re doing this because it’s cheaper than therapy.”

Sarah ScireMarch 18, 2020

The Google-backed Project Oasis hopes to crack the code of successful local digital news organizations

“I think the interesting challenge is figuring out how to balance investment in the organizations that are producing the quality journalism today with those organizations who might be emerging and able to produce several years in the future.”

Joshua BentonMarch 2, 2020

Coronavirus fears lead to another journalism conference cancellation, this time in Perugia

Losing the chance to gather together to swap stories and ideas is very low on the list of the virus’ negative effects, of course. But it’s a harbinger of the sort of disruption that could be coming on a larger scale.

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.”

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