Google is investing €150 million in big ideas for digital journalism

Oct22

by Sindy Cator on October 22, 2015 at 12:59 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

In Europe, Google’s Digital News Initiative is a partnership made up of many publishers across the member countries working together to push digital journalism forward. The DNI partnership birthed Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages, a new project designed to offer lightning-fast page load times based on a new type of HTML and optimized caching. Now, Google is taking the DNI to the next level with the announcement of a €150 million ($169 million USD) fund for companies in Europe looking to build “bold” projects to push digital journalism forward. The new fund is a no-strings-attached award that will pay startups, individuals and…