Google partners to fund new local media sites

Details: The first effort within the new Local Experiments Project will be ‘The Compass Experiment,” which is a partnership between Google and McClatchy to launch three new, digital-only local news operations on multiple platforms. Be smart: Google has rolled out several local news efforts in the past few weeks, around the first anniversary of its Google News Initiative — a pledge to invest $300 million in news media transition to digital over three years. The Local Experiments Project will use funds from the broader Google News Initiative to fund the new sites.

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