Google News Starts Highlighting Long-Form Journalism

Google is launching a brand-new feature for Google News in order to help bring rich, in-depth journalism to users. Along with the daily news cycle, the company wants to put a focus on long-form journalism that dive deeper into the stories.

The company says the new feature, Beyond the Headlines, is part of its mission to help people understand the world through increased quality, trustworthy, and “enjoyable” news.

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More often than not, in-depth stories were getting buried inside the fast daily news cycle, and so Google wanted to solve that problem by putting increased focus on these stories. With the new feature, Google News will highlight these stories beyond the fast daily news cycle, so the publishers behind the stories don’t have their work go unnoticed, and readers also get more in-depth information about the daily news.

Beyond the Headlines will also offer a read-time feature that provides an estimated read-time figure that you can use to decide if you want to spend the time required to read a long story. The feature is first launching on the desktop globally in U.S. English, while support for more languages and a mobile version is expected in 2020.

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  • Thom77

    15 November, 2019 - 2:31 pm

    <p>Just in time for the new Presidential cycle.</p><p><br></p><p>THATS what this is really about … controlling information way better then they were able to in 2016.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

    • behindmyscreen

      16 November, 2019 - 9:24 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#489472">In reply to Thom77:</a></em></blockquote><p>By “controlling information “ do you mean pointing people to journalism worth reading? That’s what this is. Avoiding listicles and nonsense 5 paragraph articles to encourage attention span when reading.</p><p><br></p><p>it makes people think more so of course the conspiracy nuts will have a problem with it.</p>

      • Greg Green

        17 November, 2019 - 9:45 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#489608">In reply to behindmyscreen:</a></em></blockquote><p>Fake news can be long form or short form. It’s all up to the publisher. My guess is that there’s been more long form fake news than short form.</p>

        • behindmyscreen

          17 November, 2019 - 10:53 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#489843">In reply to Greg Green:</a></em></blockquote><p>That's a terrible guess. Short form articles are faster the write and read. Fake information needs to go out fast and be quick to consume.</p>

  • Gramenos Gregoriadis

    16 November, 2019 - 3:06 am

    <p>The image headlines shown above doesn't inspire much confidence, with examples like "Earth shattering" and "could this be the solution to the global food crisis" </p>

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