Google continues long-term support for Australian journalism
Google continues to build on its long-running support for the Australian news industry, renewing a series of partnerships with Australian publishers.
This includes a range of Australian regional publishers like Victor Harbor Times, Loddon Herald and Naracoorte Community News, building on the earlier renewals of mainstream and digital publishers like Australian Community Media, Junkee, Mamamia, Yahoo, Private Media, The Conversation, Schwartz Media, QNews, Australian Jewish News and Southern Cross Austereo.
Since 2020, we have signed agreements with 88 Australian publishers, representing 226 media outlets across the country. In the last year alone, we’ve renewed agreements with 60 publishers and we remain the only technology company that has maintained commercial partnerships with the Australian news industry since 2020.
Beyond these commercial partnerships, we’ve supported the Australian news industry for two-decades and continue to actively support and provide initiatives for the industry’s digital transformation. We fund programs that have helped over 60 regional Australian newsrooms modernise, trained more than 1000 Australian journalists in the last year with future-ready digital and AI skills including through the Digital News Academy, and run formal workshops and innovation sprints.
