Google brings accelerator programme for digital news startups in India

NEW DELHI: Google on Thursday announced an accelerator programme ‘GNI Startups Lab India’ for independent local or single-subject journalism organisations in the country.

Under its Google News Initiative (GNI), the tech giant will offer a four-month programme that “seeks to help independent local or single-subject journalism organisations find a pathway to financial and operational sustainability through intensive coaching, skills training and other support”.