Journalism emergency relief fund

IN NEWS:

• Google on Wednesday announced a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to support the small-scaled newsrooms across the world.

JOURNALISM EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND:

• The initiative has been taken by the tech giant to provide financial aid to local news publishers, who are struggling to continue operations due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
• The company has not specified the amount it is going to pledge. But it will range from the low thousands of dollars for small hyper-local newsrooms to low tens of thousands for larger newsrooms.
• It has been launched as part of the Google News Initiative, which seeks to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

PRELIMS QUESTION:

Q. Which of the following firm launched the ‘Journalism emergency relief fund’:

1. Microsoft
2. Google
3. Infosys
4. Amazon

Answer to Prelims question