Google is helping newsrooms with its Journalism Emergency Relief Fund



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Google offers to help the local media.

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Google follows in The steps of Facebook offering financial aid to local newsrooms, which continue to cover coronavirus epidemic even when it hits your sources of income. On Wednesday, he revealed the Emergency Aid Fund for Journalism and encouraged small and medium-sized news organizations to apply immediately.

Editors can search for funds through an online application form, which will be available until April 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

“Local news is a vital resource for keeping people and communities connected at best,” wrote Richard Gingras, vice president of news for Google, in a blog post. “Today, it plays an even bigger role by reporting on local closings or shelters on housing orders, school and park closings, and data on how COVID-19
it’s affecting daily life. “

Google created a $ 300 million news initiative in 2018, in an effort to end disinformation.


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