Google unveils News Labs for journalists

Google had announced its new service called the News Labs. This new service provides the journalists associated with it with new tools and services that will help them and lead to better journalism. Journalism, at its best, is the single most important source of information all over the world. It can help keep societies free and open to new ideas, help people make more informed and balanced decisions. The main aim of Google behind the creation of News labs is to ensure that innovations in need lead to a more accessible, more Google unveils its game changer News Labs for journalists informed society and democracy. Google has said that it wants to collaborate with the journalists and other entrepreneurs to shape the media of the future world. The three steps to do this by Google include; ensuring that the journalists have access to their tools and services to work faster and effectively, helping the journalists by giving them access to helpful Google data sets and give them tools for creating big opportunities in the media world.

Google said that giving journalists the access to tools like YouTube, Google maps and fussion tables can really enhance their productivity and help them to deliver pin point and accurate news. By subscribing to the Google channel on YouTube they will have access to these videos and stories Google will publish for them instantly. The company has also vowed to provide the journalists their data and also mentioned the new update to Google trends which will allow the users to look into the deeper and in depth feedback that Google will collect from newsrooms and data journalists around the world.

“We’re also helping newsrooms around the world tell stories using data, with a daily feed of curated Google Trends based on the headlines of the day, and through partnerships with newsrooms on specific data experiments.” Google also started that by providing the journalists better exposure, best form of journalism can be achieved. In this regards Google has partnered with Matter, a media accelerator to provide financial support and mentorship from Google engineers which will help these organizations to increase their impact in startups all over the world. Google has also focused on the fact that having a smartphone allows anyone to be a reporter these days, but not a proper journalist. The news lab will be available worldwide with teams based in U.S., U.K., France, and Germany.