Earlier today, David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, spoke to editors and news industry executives at the annual GEN Summit, in Barcelona. In his speech, posted in full below, he detailed Google's commitment to working with the news industry to support high quality journalism through technology and innovation. “Imagine we're in 2015, and [this phone] is a piece of technology which delivers me my news." Digital News Initiative , a partnership between Google and news publishers in Europe to support quality journalism through technology and innovation. Today I want to give you an update on the progress we are making.Google Trends . We’ve improved the depth, comprehensiveness, and speed of our tools - launching real time Google Trends for the first time. It’s well worth a look and you can see it demonstrated at the Google Trends Booth at the EXPO.Reuters Institute Digital News Report , which we support under the DNI, has just launched its 2015 edition covering 12 countries. It’s full of great statistics and analysis of how the digital news landscape is changing in Europe. And over the next year it will grow to cover 20 countries, making it the most comprehensive picture of how European readers are consuming and absorbing their news. Trust Project , led by Markkula Center for Applied Ethics in California, which aims to propose approaches and structures to rebuild trust in online journalism. I’m delighted to say that the Trust Project has extended its pilot to include a number of prominent European news organisation, including La Stampa, Zeit Online and the BBC. And greater trust should translate into greater value. Project Shield to protect hundreds of news sites around the world from attacks aimed at censoring them by taking them offline. We do this by putting Google’s considerable computing power between the attackers and independent media sites to help them stay up in times of crisis when they're needed most. Posted by Al Verney, Communications Manager, Google
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