Google is launching the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund in an effort to help support local journalists and news outlets amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Apparently There’s Only One Way to Report News About Mike Myers and a Baby
One of Conan O’Brien’s best bits is his “media reacts” bit, where his team compiles various local new broadcasts reporting news in the exact same way. Seriously, the exact same way. It’s as if there’s one writer sitting somewhere writing…
Cute One-Eyed Dog Guards Google’s Oklahoma Data Center
Urs Holzle, Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, this week pointed his followers on Google+ toward a local Oklahoma television news station and a report on an interesting Googler working at Google’s Pryor, Oklahoma data center. From the Google+…
Google ‘News Near You’ Comes to Mobile
Google began aggregating local news in its Google News service in 2008. When it first began, users typed in a city name or zip code and viola! News from their specific area was now available from a huge variety of…
Mobile Devices Driving Local News Consumption
Nearly half of all American adults (47%) get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer, according to a new report. These findings come from a survey of 2,251 conducted in January by the Pew…
AOL To Expand Patch To 500 Sites
AOL said today it has launched 100 Patch local news sites and has plans to grow that number to 500 by the end of the year.
AOL plans to hire 500 journalists to support its Patch expansion and it will likely be the largest hirer of full-time journalists in the U.S. this year.
Newspaper Websites Most Valued Local News Source
Newspaper websites are the most valued sites for people seeking credible and trustworthy local content, according to a new survey conducted by comScore for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
More than half (57%) of the 3,050 respondents cited local newspaper websites as the top online source for local information. That percentage increases for upper income households (63%) and for the college educated (60%).