The Google News Initiative India Training Network, led by DataLEADS, is committed to empowering newsrooms and providing digital training and upskilling opportunities to journalists, fact-checkers, and media educators, enabling them to navigate and adapt to the evolving media and information landscape.
Launched in 2018 through a partnership between Google, Internews, and DataLEADS, the Network has so far trained 72,000+ journalists, media students and educators, and fact-checkers in more than 15+ languages to build a healthy and robust media ecosystem in India.
The Network’s activities have translated into many key fact-checking initiatives becoming International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) signatories, leading to an upswing in the number of fact-checking reports and stories across multiple platforms and languages in the country.
Last Updated : September, 2024