Google News App Updates

[dextermorgan]

Thank you. That made it somewhat better. But still too much empty space without fine controls it feels like

 

[amish]

Use RSS and let them do whatever design changes they want!!

https://news.google.com/news/rss/?ned=in&hl=en

 

[Sushubh]

Building trust online by partnering with the International Fact Checking Network

Today we’re announcing a new partnership with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at The Poynter Institute. As a nonpartisan organization, IFCN is committed to promoting excellence in fact checking and building a community of fact checkers around the world. IFCN has developed a widely accepted Code of Principles for fact check organizations. Signatories range from the Associated Press to the Washington Post, PolitiFact and Factcheck.org, to Correctiv (Germany), Aos Fatos (Brazil), and Africa Check.

Our partnership with IFCN will focus on these key areas with a global point of view:
Increasing the number of verified fact checkers through a combination of efforts, ranging from holding global fact check workshops to offering coaching and stipends for new fact checking organizations. Ultimately, these partners can help make sure that the content on Google Search and Google News has been accurately fact checked.
Expanding fact checking to more regions by translating the Code of Principles into ten languages and ensuring credible fact checkers can apply to participate in the IFCN community.
Providing fact-checking tools, at no cost, to the IFCN community. We’ll also offer trainings and access to an engineering time bank. Volunteer engineers will attend the annual Global Fact-Checking Summit to spend a day helping fact checkers develop software solutions to boost their impact or gain other efficiencies.

Through partnerships with organizations like the IFCN, we hope this gives people a better understanding of the information they are about to click on online.

 

[Sushubh]

Google is walking publishers through a revamped Google News | Digital - Ad Age

 

[Sushubh]

The new Google News: AI meets human intelligence

The all-new Google News replaces Google Play Newsstand on mobile and desktop and the Google News & Weather app on mobile. It's rolling out starting today and will be available to everyone on Android, iOS and the web in 127 countries by next week.

 

[Sushubh]

I wonder when the APK would be out 😀

 

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[Sushubh]

Google News APKs - APKMirror

APK is available here.
No dark theme from the looks of it.

 

[Sushubh]

and just like google feed, shares from the app also add junk to shared content.

 

[SVK]

I hope they add some great weather widget to it.
Looks like weather is given miss or less priority?

 

[Sushubh]

For weather they added a widget to the Google Launcher. The one that was pixel 2 exclusive.

 

[Sushubh]

Google News – Apps on Google Play

seems to be available officially now.

 

[Sushubh]

can folks here check what does this setting change?
i assumed that it would open news stories in browser instead of inside the news app.
but it could also mean that if you click on a link inside a news story, it should open the link inside the news app.
for me, if this option is enabled... the news story opens inside news app. clicking on a link inside news story opens it in browser.
and if this option is disabled, exact same behavior. news open inside the news app and links inside the news story open in browser.

 

[SVK]

Its a new app altogether. I was assuming it would be upgrade over old app.

 

[Sushubh]

it replaces Google Play Newsstand. So if you have that installed, you would/should get this automatically.
Google News & Weather is not going to get any more updates.

 

[SVK]

I had Newsstand earlier, but recently when I factory reset phone, I didnt install it.

can folks here check what does this setting change?
i assumed that it would open news stories in browser instead of inside the news app.
but it could also mean that if you click on a link inside a news story, it should open the link inside the news app.
for me, if this option is enabled... the news story opens inside news app. clicking on a link inside news story opens it in browser.
and if this option is disabled, exact same behavior. news open inside the news app and links inside the news story open in browser.

Same here for me as well.