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Google's local news test app starts in Youngstown, Ohio
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IANS | 19 Jul, 2019
Moving forward with its plans to
improve local news results, Google has decided Youngstown, Ohio in the
US as the first city for its "Compass" experiment which is part of the
Google News Initiatives Local Experiments Project.
"Compass" is a
local news lab founded in partnership between McClatchy and Google that
would launch and operate three digital-only news operations in small-
to mid-sized US communities that have limited sources of local,
independent journalism, Google wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
"The
goal is to not only support the dissemination of news in these
communities but also make the local operations financially
self-sustaining through experimentation with a variety of revenue
models. We would also document and share what we've learned with the
broader news community," wrote Mandy Jenkins, General Manager, The
Compass Experiment.
According to the post, over the past few
weeks, the Compass team connected with journalists, community leaders
and businesses in the Youngstown area to cater to the local news needs
of the inhabitants there.
As of now, the locations of the
remaining Compass sites have not been decided, but as per the plan, each
site would be independently built and launched with different platforms
as well as revenue models.
In addition, all three sites would
be 100 per cent owned and operated by McClatchy with sole editorial
control over content, Jenkins noted.
Google's initiative on
investing in local news launches after Facebook recently admitted it has
been having a hard time finding enough local news.
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