Current Affairs - National - Discussion

Google has selected 87 news organisations from 23 countries for funding under its Global News Initiative (GNI). Of these 87 organisations selected, 10 are from India. The funding aims at helping the organisations in building video capabilities and experiment with new formats for video journalism. The news firms selected from India are Factly, Asianet News Media and Entertainment, NDTV, India Today, Bharatiya Digital Party, Nyooz and Video Volunteers. Google will aid these organisations in expanding newsroom video operations and trying out new ways of reporting news through video from reaching younger audiences online to exploring live and fact-checking formats.