Google News Initiative

Tools and resources to help digital news thrive

The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

Develop your audience

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Keep visitors engaged with recirculation

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Strengthen digital journalism

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Reverse Image Search: Verifying photos.

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Grow your revenue

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Build a fundraising strategy

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Check out new tools, training and more, designed in partnership with industry experts, academics and news organizations.

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Pinpoint

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Upload and analyse large numbers of documents with the power of Google Search, AI and machine learning.

Introduction to Machine Learning

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With help from the London School of Economics and Political Science, VRT News and Texty our Journalism AI courses offer an insight on how journalists are using machine learning in their newsrooms.

Investigative Reporting

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From Google Public Data Explorer to Google Search, this intensive course will help journalists interpret a range of online sources to strengthen their efficiency and efficacy of in-depth research.

Hands-on Machine Learning

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This course teaches journalists how to use Machine Learning for their reporting. You will learn how to train a Machine Learning model to identify and classify images in vast datasets.

Fundamentals

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Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.

Keep visitors engaged

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Engage and retain visitors by using article recirculation, videos and Core Web Vitals.

Increase site traffic

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Use Search, newsletters, social sharing and ads to attract more visits.

Start building your audience

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Understand and grow your audience with analytics, surveys and tools.

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Creating safe spaces in Latin American media

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Chicas Poderosas works to coach and support women and LGBTQ+ journalists

Bringing underreported stories to attention

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A women-founded network of journalists and news organisations across Mexico

Keeping drivers safe with AI-powered journalism

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The Boston Globe’s investigation into automotive records yields a Pulitzer Prize

Advocates for equity in Australia

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Media Diversity Australia advocates for greater diversity in Australian media

Digital transformation for cooperative journalism

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Les coops de l'information is a cooperative of six publications in Quebec

Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism

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Ripples Nigeria is an independent news platform committed to data-driven reporting on the environment. By offering a suite of geo-journalism tools, users – from scientists to community leaders – can share resources and take a more active role in the fight against climate change.

An experiment in open data and civic participation

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READr is an experimental news media project involving a few reporters, designers and engineers based in Taipei. Together, they are exploring how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation.

A collaborative effort to fight misinformation

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Indonesia’s media recognised the need to increase the capacity of fact checking and verification ahead of the 2019 elections. With the support of Google News Initiative, CekFakta.com was born: a platform where Indonesian publishers, journalists and fact checkers work together to fight the spread of hoaxes.

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7,000+ news partners

118 countries and territories

$300M+ in funding

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