A new way of Quality Journalism
By MYBRANDBOOK
The tech adobe Google is coming out with more initiative ideas to help news and broadcasting industry by using its sophisticated Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning. Google has announced a partnership with Polis, the international journalism think-tank at London School of Economics and Political Science, to create "Journalism AI". Part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), the "Journalism AI" project will focus on research and training for newsrooms on the interchange of AI and journalism.
“As part of ‘Journalism AI’, next year, we’ll publish a global survey about how the media is currently using — and could further benefit from — this technology,” Google said in a statement at GNI Innovation Forum.
“We’ll also collaborate with newsrooms and academic institutions to create a best practices handbook and produce free online training on how to use AI in the newsroom for journalists worldwide,” Matt Cooke, Head of Partnerships and Training, Google News Lab was quoted as saying by IANS.
The tech company after testing with partners since last couple of years, introduced is latest tool called Google Earth Studio. This is an animation tool for 3D imagery as well as Google Earth’s satellite . The tool will also help graphics specialists with new techniques for Google Earth imagery in storytelling.
According to the company, it has provided free training to journalists on a range of tools reaching more than 140,000 people in-person. "Our training on Google tools for journalists are now available in 16 languages - including Indonesian Bahasa, Thai and Turkish," Matt Cooke added.
Google News in November launched a new innovation challenge to help scribes and publishers in the Asia-Pacific region produce quality journalism in the digital age.
The Asia-Pacific Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge will fund selected projects up to $300,000 and finance up to 70 per cent of the total project cost, that inject new ideas into the news industry. According to Google, in Asia-Pacific, journalists and publishers are increasingly grappling with questions over how quality journalism can thrive in the digital age. "From Yangon to Manila, Sydney to New Delhi, they are experimenting with fresh approaches to reporting and new business models," said the company.
“We’re inviting newsrooms around the world to start using the product for the first time,” Google said as per the agency.
Let us see how this AI integrated quality journalism can thrive in the digital age !!!
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