Building a stronger future for local news

Radar Cirebon, an influential local news publisher and online media publication across West Java, Indonesia, received tailored recommendations to improve its website performance that were aligned with the organization's long-term business goals and resulted in increased revenue.

Disway.id is a news publisher with multiple networks across diverse Indonesian provinces. The program solved their challenges that enabled Disway.id to keep track of their networks' performance and yielded actionable insights to make data driven decisions to boost their website performance.

Wiradesa, a news startup in Yogyakarta, has successfully increased its total unique website visitors by 60% by leveraging the Sekolah Journalism Desa (SJD), an online learning platform that engages youth. With guidance from the Google News Initiative Startup Lab, Wiradesa supports young citizens to become journalists and publish their work. This effort aims to empower rural communities with relevant information, while also creating significant growth in their website usage.

Kumparan is an online media platform that was facing a challenge on sourcing high quality journalism content from regional provinces. To solve this they created a media incubator to empower hyperlocal Indonesian media startups. This created new hyperlocal YouTube channels and improved the quality of locally specific video content that would later be distributed via Kumparan platforms.

iNews is a TV station with multiple channels and part of the MMC Media Network. They leveraged the potential of YouTube to provide training to hundreds of young reporters on how to shoot and edit professional news reports using smartphones. This approach enabled iNews network to reduce their production costs.

More than 3.5x revenue and 450 million views growth. To streamline their reporting process for the 2019 elections election, Kompas TV invested in training and equipment to adopt a smartphone-first approach. By incorporating these techniques, they were able to cover significant local events in real-time for their audience. This minor adjustment for the future resulted in remarkable outcomes during Q2, 2019.

Launched in December 2022, in partnership with CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) to drive innovation through research, policy discussion and best practice development to address misinformation.

Information Panel provides viewers with additional context that includes information such as Fact Check, General Reference Articles, and Funding Source Information to help people make more informed decisions about content they consume on YouTube.

YouTube Developed the YouTube Priority Flagger Program for non-governmental organizations to enable a reliable content reporting process for content that violates community guidelines. YouTube partnered with seven local organizations: Komifo, Bawaslu, ICT Watch, Mafindo, ECPAT, Wahid Foundation and ARSPTN.

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