A more informed world has always been core to Google's mission.
We believe that everyone, everywhere should be able to access a diversity of credible sources to get the information they need. That starts with a news industry that gives every community a voice.
Fostering a community for news
We're dedicated to working with the news industry so that global newsrooms and local papers alike can flourish.
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Google
Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Google and the news industry
Over the past 20 years, we've collaborated closely with the news industry and provided billions of dollars to support the creation of quality journalism in the digital age.
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The Google News Initiative
In 2018, we launched the Google News Initiative to scale our work with journalists, publishers and industry leaders in order to help build a resilient future for news around the globe.
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Our partners
Alongside governments, civic and community leaders, and other companies, we're playing our part to make more reliable information more accessible.
The Google News Initiative continues to build upon Google's nearly 20-year commitment towards supporting the news industry.
Google founded.
Google News launches as one of the first products outside of core Search, organising news articles to make it easier to see a range of sources on the same topic.
Doubleclick acquired, expanding our relationship with web publishers and providing new technology and expertise to support their display advertising businesses.
Newsstand launches as a platform for publishers to produce and optimise their content into magazine-like editions designed for viewing on mobile devices.
Launched a global journalist training programme through Google for Media.
Google News Lab launches to empower journalists with new technology.
Digital News Initiative forms to collaborate with the European news ecosystem around product, training, research and innovation.
Launched Accelerated Mobile Pages (formerly Accelerated Mobile Pages), an open-source web components library now hosted under the OpenJS Foundation, that helps publishers easily create fast-loading web pages and other engaging online experiences like Stories and dynamic email.
Added Fact Check labels to help readers find fact checking in large news stories.
Flexible Sampling introduced to help publishers grow subscription revenue by controlling whether and how many articles they want to let searchers access before showing a paywall or subscription prompt
Funding Choices introduced to help publishers recover lost revenue due to ad blockers, inviting users to enable ads or choose another way to fund the content.
Google News Initiative launched to help centralise and scale our efforts across the company to help build a stronger future for news.
Google News applies real-time AI and machine learning to organise the news, providing publishers with new audiences, frictionless one-click subscriptions (through Subscribe with Google) and new opportunities to experiment with editorial formats, advertising models and marketing promotions
Journalism Emergency Relief Fund supports 5,600+ local newsrooms to sustain essential reporting during the COVID-19 crisis.
Google News Showcase launches with $1 billion commitment to support creation of quality content.
We believe deeply in spreading knowledge to make life better for everyone. It's at the heart of Google's mission. It's the mission of publishers and journalists.
How GNI supports the news industry
Our decades-long dialogue and collaboration is focused on supporting journalists, strengthening publishers' business models and building a global news community.
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DataLEADS trains over 35,000 people in India to combat misinformation'We realise that fighting misinformation is not just the job of journalists. It needs a whole-society approach.' – Syed Nazakat, Founder, DataLEADS. -
Jambalaya News helps Spanish-speaking readers access local news'One of the biggest challenges that immigrants have is that it's harder to get local news, especially in their language. So it's very important for us to be able to help this community.' -Rocio Tirado, Chief Operating Officer, Jambalaya News. -
Pulse uses new digital formats to engage a mass youth audience in Nigeria'If you look at the population of Nigeria, nearly half can be considered as a youth. So we saw this open space with these people that we connected with and wanted to speak to.' -Fiona Weeks, MD, Pulse.
Impact
To date, the Google News Initiative has supported 7,000+ news partners in more than 120 countries and territories through more than $550 million in global funding.
