June 24: Google News Lab – Google launched an online News Lab to co-operate with journalists and entrepreneurs, to create more informed and democratic world. Visit – newslab.withgoogle.com.

Google News Lab was launched on Monday with a mission to help new leads to create a more informed and more democratic world. It launched the news lab services with teams in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. The news lab technology will co-operate with journalists and entrepreneurs to help build the future of media.

Lab director Steve Grove said that “From Maps to YouTube to Fusion Tables to Earth to Search, the new lab will offer many tools, where the newsroom can use all these in their reporting and storytelling. And this will help for journalists around the world to access tutorials specifically for news rooms”

Google offering News Lab home page online at newslab.withgoogle.com along with research, reporting, distribution and optimization services. Google was also working with partners including popular network of journalists and technologists for this programme with a focus on the future of news and information and to allowing new voices in the media.

Grove said that “Google has introduced many technologies and platforms to engage with media industry, if the both technologists and journalists work together, we can create a more informed world”.