How Google's Digital News Initiative is evolving
This article documents how Google is promoting digital news across Europe by heavily investing in hundreds of projects that attempt to focus journalists on creating news to go online. They have put forward almost £130 million to invest. They also say that Google will not own any of the content which will be created as a result of their investment. They will also not ask the grantees to promote google in anyway, so it looks like Google are doing this out of their own free will because they really want to help journalism prevail.
I think that this is a good thing, especially for a company like Google to do as they are some-what responsible for the decline in the newspaper industry which affected a lot of journalist because they were made redundant to save the companies costs. More should be done like this to promote journalism and i do think other large Internet companies may follow suit because it does seem like the right thing to do, do kick start the industry again and hopefully encourage more people to go into a career in journalism because they know there is jobs out there for them.
I think that this is a good thing, especially for a company like Google to do as they are some-what responsible for the decline in the newspaper industry which affected a lot of journalist because they were made redundant to save the companies costs. More should be done like this to promote journalism and i do think other large Internet companies may follow suit because it does seem like the right thing to do, do kick start the industry again and hopefully encourage more people to go into a career in journalism because they know there is jobs out there for them.
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