The Google News Initiative India Training Network is a newsroom training and capacity building initiatives, dedicated to strengthening the capacity of journalists, fact-checkers, and media educators across India.

The network is led by a team of expert media trainers selected through a Training-of-Trainers (ToT) model, equipping newsrooms and media institutions with essential skills in digital verification, visual fact-checking, and data journalism.

Through hands-on workshops, upskilling programs, and newsroom collaborations, the initiative has empowered newsrooms and universities across the country, fostering a stronger, more resilient media ecosystem.

FactShala is a media and information literacy programme run by DataLEADS with support from the Google News Initiative. The programme helps people from small cities and villages across India to critically assess online information and sift facts from misinformation. FactShala is run by DataLEADS with support from the Google News Initiative. It was launched in 2020 by Internews with support from Google.org. The vision is to empower communities around them with ethical approaches to information literacy and critical thinking skills.

The Bihar Information and Media Literacy Initiative is led by DataLEADS in partnership with the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain and supported by the Mercury Project, a research programme of Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York.

This initiative is implemented with the support of JEEViKA, Government of Bihar. Its goal is to study the impact of a media literacy intervention, by conducting a series of workshops for 6000+ school-going students (grades 8-12), across 32 districts of Bihar state of India. The intervention will focus on health-related news literacy, which is a crucial aspect of media and information literacy. This makes BIMLI a unique program implemented at such a large scale in India