Google gives Emergency Funds to 5,300 local Online News Organizations
New York, May 29th, 2020: 5,300 small and medium local newsrooms around the world have been selected by Google to receive emergency funding from $5,000-$30,000 (approximately Rs 3.7 lakh-Rs 22.7 lakh).
Covid-19 has upended the news industry, hitting local news particularly hard with job losses, furloughs, cutbacks, and even closure, Google said in a blog post.
To provide some help, the Google News Initiative last month launched the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund.
"Applications covering a number of publications under one organization will be capped at $85,000. As we await a final funding tally, we expect to spend tens of millions of dollars through the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund," said, Ludovic Blecher, Head of Google News Initiative Innovation.
Google said in just two w...