[1] Launched in 2015, the team works with news organizations to help address industry challenges by providing training and access to emerging technologies for reporting and storytelling.
[2] Google News Lab was a founding partner of the fact-checking coalition First Draft, which launched in 2015.
[3] In 2017, Google helped First Draft launch new collaborative reporting models to verify news stories during the UK, French and German elections.
[6] The News Lab has trained more than 9,000 local reporters in the U.S. through a partnership with the Society for Professional Journalists.
Training programs for local newsrooms also exist in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.