Google News Pledges Funding for Journalism Innovation in Asia-Pacific
Google News has launched a new innovation challenge to help scribes and publishers in the Asia-Pacific region produce quality journalism in the digital historic period.
The Asia-Pacific Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Claiming will fund selected projects up to $300,000 and finance upward to seventy per cent of the full project cost, that inject new ideas into the news industry.
"We are inviting proposals for projects aimed at increasing acquirement from readers, including subscriptions, membership programmes, contributions and/or new digital products and services," Google said in a statement.
"A panel of Googlers and other tech manufacture executives will review the submissions and fund selected projects up to $300,000 and finance up to lxx per cent of the total project price," said Kate Beddoe, Head of News and Publishing Partnerships.
Applications for the innovation claiming will open on November 28 and the deadline to submit is Jan ix. According to Google, in Asia-Pacific, journalists and publishers are increasingly grappling with questions over how quality journalism can thrive in the digital historic period.
"From Yangon to Manila, Sydney to New Delhi, they are experimenting with fresh approaches to reporting and new business models," said the company.
The funding will be reviewed against several criteria, including a "sharing component" — for example by publishing whatever findings or holding a seminar — and so grantees can pass their knowledge on to others in the manufacture.
The motion comes at a fourth dimension when according to media reports, Google may close down its Google News service in the European Union (European union) if a proposed "link tax" for using news stories comes into strength in member countries.
Co-ordinate to the new copyright directive, adopted by the European Parliament on September 12, tech giants must pay for work of artists and journalists which they use. "To put the rule changes into upshot, individual member countries would accept to draft local laws," said the report in The Guardian.
This is not the first time an attempt is being fabricated to charge Google for links. In 2014, Spain passed a police force requiring aggregation sites to pay for news links. Google then decided to close downwardly the service for Spanish consumers.
Source: https://beebom.com/google-news-funding-innovations-asia-pacific/
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