Google News Gives News Orgs a Chance to Stand Out

Many mainstream news organizations have long viewed Google News as a threat to their interests. But more recently, Google has been portrayed as sensitive to the health of the news media. Eric Schmidt, its chief executive, has worried openly about a world without high-quality journalism.

Now a recent experiment suggests that Google is at least considering taking another step to give increased exposure to several mainstream news publications. In an experimental new section on Google News called Editors Picks, discovered yesterday by the Nieman Journalism Lab, Google is offering a dozen or so news organizations the opportunity to prominently display their top links on the popular news page.