The Silicon Review
21 November, 2018
The news industry across the Asia-Pacific region will be boosted by Google News, as Google will roll out a new innovation challenge to help the scribes and publishers to produce quality content in the digital age of Journalism.
A funding of $300,000 will be carried out by the Asia-Pacific Google News Initiative Innovation challenge to operate the project. Almost 70 percent of the project’s total cost will be covered by Google. It will deliver new and innovative ideas to the news industry.
According to Google News, the company will invite proposals for operating the projects. It will be targeted to increase revenue from the readers which also includes membership programmes, subscriptions, digital projects, contributions,and services.
The proposal will be reviewed by a panel of Google members and other industry executives. After reviewing, the proposals will be finalized and selected projects will be funded accordingly.
There are several criteria for reviewing the proposals like as sharing component where the participants need to submit any findings or hold a seminar. After that, the selected participants can pass their knowledge on to others in the industry.
The applications for the innovation challenge will be accepted from November 28 till January 9, 2019.
Google News is experimenting across the South-Asian region which also includes Australia with fresh ideas over how Journalism can be improved in the digital age.
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