For this the Google News Initiative India Training Network will select 200 journalists from cities across India who will hone their skills in verification and training during five-day train-the-trainer boot camps that will be organised for English and six other Indian languages.
This network of certified trainers will then train more journalists at two-day one-day and half-day workshops organised by the Network.
Training workshops will be conducted in English Hindi Tamil Telugu Bengali Marathi and Kannada in cities across India Google India said in a statement.
The focus of the training will be fact-checking online verification and digital hygiene for journalists using a curriculum built by experts from First Draft Storyful AltNews BoomLive Factchecker.in and DataLeads.
"Supporting trusted authoritative media sources is a top priority for Google which is why we are proud to collaborate with Internews DataLeads and BoomLive to support journalists in their fight against misinformation in India " said Irene Jay Liu Google News Lab Lead Asia-Pacific.
"Our goal is to train more than 200 trainers who will then train 8 000 journalists in six languages over the next year making this Google s largest training network in the world " Liu added.
--IANS gb/mr
