Helge Scherlund’s eLearning News: Google launches Artificial Intelligence academy for small newsrooms | Journalism

In a bid to help small media publishers reach new audiences and drive
more traffic to their content, the Google News Initiative (GNI) has
launched a training academy for 20 media professionals to learn how
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to support their journalism, reports IANS.

Google is partnering with Polis, the London School of Economics and Political Science’s journalism think tank, to launch the training academy. Photo: Social Media

Google is partnering with Polis, the London School of Economics and
Political Science’s journalism think tank, to launch the training
academy, it said in a statement on Thursday.

The AI Academy for
Small Newsrooms is a six-week long, free online programme taught by
industry-leading journalists and researchers who work at the
intersection of journalism and AI.

It will start in September this year and will welcome journalists and
developers from small news organisations in the Europe, Middle East, and
Africa (EMEA) region…

More than 110,000 participants have already taken the online training
modules available on the Google News Initiative Training Centre.

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Source: Free Press Journal