Digital News Initiative Creates New Trend in the Publishing IndustryPosted by Sharma Daugherty on July 10th, 2021 The Digital News Initiative, formerly known as Google news, is a European organization established by Google to 'support high-standard journalism through innovation and technology'. It covers an "Innovations Fund" worth Euros 150m, which this year issued grants to 461 different projects in twenty countries. Among them was the highly respectable French newspaper Le Figueire. Le Figueire has also won the prestigious Journalism Prize once. It is a valuable partner of the Financial Times and the Economist. This is not the first time that Google has tried to spread its influence through the European media. In 2021 it launched the European Journalism Project, whose first project was focused on Spain. This was later followed by another important one in the Baltic country of Lithuania, where a pilot project from Vilnius University was used as a platform for investigative reporting and qualitative research. agency has now gone a step further with its latest development, the Europe v USA Digital Single Market initiative. This is part of the wider European Union's bid to reform the continent's journalism sector. This European digital news initiative is likely to affect all aspects of journalism. For one thing, Google is looking to make improvements in how it delivers search results, especially on its own search engine, which is Google News. This can have an impact on the way publishers choose to present their content and on what content they decide to publish. Publishers, for example, may choose to limit coverage on certain topics or to eliminate certain categories of information. agency can have implications for how news is distributed to readers and for news consumers overall. Another thing is that the European digital news working group has established itself as an organization that could potentially become a founding member of the Open Access Foundation. This foundation is designed to increase access to the world's knowledge. agency has adopted a policy of principles and a board of directors that include experts in different areas such as medicine, business, government and education. The European digital news organization also plans to launch its first open-access journal in 2021. This will be in the areas of information technology, psychology and journalism. The publisher of the journal, which will likely be focused on IT innovations, will not be subject to any editorial policies. This can create significant differences in the way in which the organization operates, both in terms of policies and practices and in terms of the power of influence over decision makers. In terms of business innovation, the European Working Group on Journalism and Efficient Digital Publishing has developed guidelines and a suggested course of action for improving the quality and effectiveness of the German media. The guidelines call for increased collaboration between the publishing industry and the government. They also recommend the introduction of new regulations that would force transnational newsrooms to co-operate more closely with their local publishers. They also recommend the establishment of a platform that would help develop the co-operation. The suggested solutions are designed to provide a solution for increasing efficiency and quality in the German publishing industry. A related innovation is being developed by the European Journalism Forum, an international non-profit organization devoted to strengthening the global independent media. The Forum has been working on a number of issues pertaining to the global impact of digital technologies and information. The organization views this development as crucial in terms of promoting economic growth in Europe and the rest of the world. In the UK, the BBC has established a Pan-European digital bureau, operating out of Berlin, which will provide round the clock coverage to all EU countries. The bureau is being established as part of the reforms being carried out by the corporation in order to increase its ability to serve its communities and to increase access to digital technologies. In terms of innovation in the EU, the European Journalism Agency has launched a series of pilot projects aimed at improving the way it carries out its work. Several news agencies have been granted extra funding by the European Journalism Organization for this reason. It was revealed that this innovative initiative would provide the Association of Independent Publishers with the money it needs to start a new chapter in its development. The Association of Independent Publishers of European Journalism or AJPJE has therefore formed a board to improve the effectiveness of its work, while also contributing to the foundation of digital news. Other members of the board include editors from major news agencies such as Associated Press, Agence France Press, Clergy News Agency, and The Guardian.Like it? Share it! More by this author |