Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To over-dramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a necessity of our shared democracy; news
organizations resent it as a (perceived) key cause of the financial strife that keeps them from fully defending that democracy.
Now there's an olive branch -- a multi-million-dollar
olive branch: Google is announcing that it will donate $5 million to encourage innovation in digital journalism. The grant will come in two parts: $2 million of it will go to the Knight Foundation,
the journalism mega-funder - and $3 million will go to fund international news-innovation efforts, via a partnership with an as-yet-unannounced organization.
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