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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

Christine SchmidtJanuary 14, 2019

Heightening the CMS race: WordPress.com and News Revenue Hub devise a toolkit for local newsrooms

“It’s not rocket science to put a CMS together. It is a bit of rocket science to figure out how to make the most effective use of it and create a sustainable business model.”

Shan WangAugust 6, 2018

WhatsApp is a black box of viral misinformation — but in Brazil, 24 newsrooms are teaming up to fact-check it

And unlike previous efforts, WhatsApp is giving the fact-checkers an important tool to reach the public more easily.

Google, working with news orgs like ProPublica, will return more datasets in search results

Google’s Digital News Innovation Fund selects a new round of projects to fund

Shan WangMarch 20, 2018

Google announces a $300M ‘Google News Initiative’ (though this isn’t about giving out grants directly to newsrooms, like it does in Europe)

Also: an easier subscription flow, $10 million for media literacy in U.S. high schools, fact-checking efforts in search around health issues, and more.