JOURNALISM EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND

April 16, 2020

Google has launched a global Journalism Emergency Relief Fund.

About:

  • It has been launched through the Google News Initiative to support small and medium-sized news organizations producing original news for local communities.

  • The Fund’s aim is to support the production of original journalism for local communities in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating globally, it will provide an easily-accessible route to financial assistance at this critical time.

  • The move comes with the media sector facing deep cutbacks resulting from lockdowns, an intense economic slump and a retrenchment in advertising revenues that many news outlets depend on. 

Source : The Hindu

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