Google launches platform for journalists – Correio da Manhã

News Lab aims to give tools to create better journalistic content.

 By JS

The News Lab is the latest Google platform that will help journalists create and share their work. According to the company, the goal is to help writers better utilize the technologies offered by Google, such as Google Maps or Trends, when writing the news.

“We offer many tools that can be used in newsrooms” said the director of the News Lab, Steve Grove, the French news agency AFP .

Journalists can get a training on these technologies in the News Lab website, which also according to Google’s mission is to help create a “ more informed and more democratic world.”

The platform also gives examples of journalistic work already done that They count on this contribution. To move forward, the project has the contribution of many journalists from USA, UK, France and Germany.

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Google has the notion that, through social networks, there was a growth of information given directly by citizens and also decided to invest in this area. The company just released NewsWire YouTube, a channel that aggregates videos shot by anyone, but that may have newsworthy

In addition, there are two new initiatives in the same area:. The WITNESS Media Lab, you want to use these videos in the fight for human rights, and the First Draft Coalition, to guide journalists on how to how to use these videos without creating ethical problems.

Google is not the first to invest in journalism. In May, Facebook has partnered with various media to incorporate the news within the social network and, in June, Apple launched the App News, a news aggregator to Flipboard style.

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