In his first public appearance in Europe after becoming Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai made important product announcements aimed at publishers, including the launch of Project Shield and the second round of the Google Digital News Initiatives (DNI). He also answered questions about user data and his upcoming meeting with the European Commission.

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Expect an explosion of online video, more mobile apps and further moves towards distributed content according to the annual Media, Journalism and Technology Predictions 2016 released Tuesday by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

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It is just 20 months since the Dutch startup first launched its journalism micropayment system in The Netherlands and now it plans to enter the US market with an English-language version. Users will be able to start using the beta version early 2016, Blendle's Head of International Duco van Lanschot said in New York on Wednesday.

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Has innovation really replaced strategy as the prime preoccupation of top media managers? It's not that simple... and if that were true, news publishers should by all means build up the appropriate financial capacity to rethink their innovation culture, advance their best innovations to the market, and look beyond the promises of the Google Digital News Initiative (DNI). DNI's launch highlights the existence of programs such as Horizon 2020 and many national innovation frameworks that also can support this quest.

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