{"id":2146,"date":"2015-12-24T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/newsroom15\/?p=163"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:38:38","slug":"to-trust-google-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/2015\/12\/24\/to-trust-google-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote: To Trust Google or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sneha Antony<\/strong>
\nONA Newsroom<\/p>\n

Why should you trust Google?<\/p>\n

That’s the question posed to Google News head Richard Gingras as the Online News Association kicked off its annual conference Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople can make decisions everyday about whether or not to trust Google with the click of their mouse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mobile web \u201cis in crisis,” Gingras said, calling ad blockers a symptom of a bigger problem. The user experience is being trampled upon by a proliferation of advertisements as well as slow page load times, he said.<\/p>\n

Gingras sat down with Emily Bell, from Columbia Journalism School\u2019s Tow Center of Digital Journalism, to discuss critical issues impacting journalism today during the conference\u2019s keynote, \u201cA Deep Dive into Google.”<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s ecosystem is vastly different from the one 40 years ago where the number of publications were not more than 10,000. Here we are in the world of the Internet where we come to the millions,\u201d Gingras said. \u201cThe New York Times is competing on equal footing with blogs and corporate spin sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Session attendee Alan Soon, CEO of Splice Newsroom, agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will admit to using an ad blocker myself,” Soon said. “I think the way mobile news works is problematic. The entire experience is broken. I think this is a great ongoing conversation not just in the U.S. but all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

This diversification of news outlets online raises questions of trustworthiness.<\/p>\n

“The Internet has value, but it doesn’t have values,” says @richardgingras<\/a>. #ONA15<\/a> #ONAdeepdive<\/a> \u2014 Taylor C. Shaw (@taylorcshaw) September 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To combat these issues, Gingras reviewed the Trust Project, a project that he and Sally Lehrman, a fellow at the Markkula Center of Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, are working on. \u201cWe can\u2019t rely on the old model of in essence \u2018trust us because we are us,\u2019\u201d he said. Gingras said the Trust Project proposes that journalists publish a statement of ethics online, disclose conflicts of interest, reveal all players in content creation of articles and aspire to create the most accurate versions of their stories. Google would then favor these sites in its algorithm. \u201cThe objective isn\u2019t about how we improve the quality of journalism. It is how do we make sure that the quality of journalism that is there is understood to be just that,\u201d Gingras said. <\/p>\n

Google sends 10 billion visits to news organizations, across all of its campuses. #ONA15<\/a> #ONADeepDive<\/a> \u2014 Adrian Lee (@AdrianKLee) September 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sophomore Indiana University student Sarah Panfil said she appreciates Google\u2019s passion to change the way people view journalism.<\/p>\n

Gingras concluded that these were issues journalists\u00a0should continue to discuss and experiment with using new media technology.<\/p>\n

.@richardgingras<\/a>: questions around journalism will be solved by a collective effort. Each of us needs to experiment. #ONA15<\/a> #ONAdeepdive<\/a> \u2014 Elizabeth Wiley (@ewiley) September 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are some takeaways from\u00a0Gingras’ session<\/h2>\n

Video: Ernesto Rivera, <\/strong>ONA Newsroom<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
Sarah Panfil, student at Indiana University: “My biggest takeaway was passion. I got a sense of passion from Richard Gingras and I got a sense that he appreciates the passion in journalists.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alan<\/a>
Alan Soon, CEO and founder of Splice Newsroom:\u00a0
“I liked some of the comments about the future of mobile web. I think it is something that needs to be solved.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tay<\/a>
Tay Wiles, Online Editor at High Country News in Colorado:\u00a0
“I thought it was pretty interesting that the head of Google News was saying that the results of their algorithm is accessible to anyone to analyze and let them know whether they are doing a good job.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Check out\u00a0our\u00a0roundup of the “Deep Dive Into Google” session below<\/h2>\n
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