However, you can find some other topics that are also supported by Google News. On the bottom left side of the Google News page you may find a Language & region section where you can find all of the supported combinations. Google News used to have an API but it was deprecated many years ago. I heavily rely on Feedparser package to Insights from the Blacknight blog parse the RSS feed. Every time you call any function there is an HTTPS request to Google’s servers. This work is more of a collection of all things I could find out about how Google News functions.
This second cohort follows the inaugural JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative which awarded 35 publishers from 22 countries grants. By translating existing data into practical insights, the framework will support future outreach strategies – including personalised newsletters – and contribute to a more sustainable financial model for non-profit independent journalism. Tempo, one of Indonesia’s most established independent news organisations, will create an intelligent platform that centralises five decades of archival content into a single Digital Asset Management system. The project includes a Slack-based companion that helps staff record impact in real time, while AI organises and analyses this information to reveal patterns in how coverage serves readers and communities. The Philippine digital news organisation Rappler is building Intelligent Reader Assistant that uses AI-driven recirculation to serve readers at every stage of engagement. Public Policy, an Italian news agency specialising in political and parliamentary reporting, is building Postilla AI, a platform that combines its live coverage of Italian and European institutions with official parliamentary documents and open political databases.
I’m particularly frustrated when I see bait-and-switch headlines on Verge stories, of course, and worried they’re taking away our ability to market our own work. I found another that claimed to be about a GPU maker commenting on the RAM shortage; it linked instead to a Digitimes story about a RAM maker. But Google’s AI has no clue what parts of these stories are new, relevant, significant, or true, and it can easily confuse one story for another. “I’d encourage people to click on stories and read them, and not trust what Google is spoon-feeding them.” For example, Google’s AI claimed last week that “US reverses foreign drone ban,” citing and linking to this PCMag story for the news.
Just the one code being given away when thousands of people are likely to get involved feels a bit stingy, although at the time of writing Ubisoft’s post hasn’t exactly blown up, so you might be in with a shot. And Google AI decided to advertise our big Verge Awards at CES 2026 story as “Robots & AI Take CES,” which was basically the opposite of our conclusion in that story. It characterizes these new offerings as “trending topics,” even though each “trending topic” presents itself as one of our stories, links to our stories, and uses our images, all without competent fact-checking to ensure the AI is getting them right.
He says Google should be using the headline that humans wrote, and if Google needs a summary, it can use the ones that publications already submit to help search engines parse our work. What does the author of that PCMag story think? Some reports on the Commerce Department’s decision have misleading headlines that could make you think the government did an about-face, so I don’t blame you for being confused.
These publishers will, over the next nine months, develop AI based products that boost audience intelligence and revenue growth, through the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers. Discover is a personalized feed of content in the Google app, on the Chrome homepage, and on the -1 screen of some devices that encompasses a wide range of categories
The tool will recommend relevant articles, analyse sentiment around different topics and formats, and support better editorial decisions. The system identifies at-risk readers and recommends stories most likely to bring them back, enabling timely, personalised outreach to strengthen the reader revenue that sustains independent journalism. Civio, a Spanish non-profit newsroom focused on government transparency and accountability, will develop an AI back-office assistant for small newsrooms where supporter relationships are essential but time is scarce. “We’re excited to see what comes from the broad range of innovative ideas proposed by these 12 winning publishers,” said Matt Cooke, Head of Ecosystem Investment Programs, Google News Partnerships. The 12 publishers selected for the 2025 JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative programme.
In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content feed. Search Google News for recent headlines with source and timestamp. Google notes that over half of early users selected four or more sources to curate their perfect news feed. But this time, I want to share with the community a Python package that makes it simple to get the news data from the best search engine ever created – Google. Top stories, topic related news feeds, geolocation news feed, and an extensive full text search feed. Google News seeks to reward independent, original journalistic content by giving credit to the originating publisher, as both users and publishers would prefer.