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  • Jagran New Media collaborates with Google News Initiative

    Jagran New Media collaborates with Google News Initiative

    Mumbai: Jagran New Media (JNM) is proud to collaborate with Google News Initiative, aimed at empowering content creation by developing a smart content management system (CMS). This partnership will unify and enhance JNM’s editorial efficacy in the existing CMS systems, creating a single source of truth and facilitating cross-platform content optimization. The CMS, with its advanced AI/ML and NLP capabilities, significantly improves content creation and summarization, user experience, SEO optimization, and operational efficiency.

    Jagran New Media editor-in-chief Rajesh Upadhyay emphasized the editorial benefits of the CMS collaboration, “The CMS’s AI/ML and NLP capabilities have upgraded JNM’s content creation, not just with automated content processes but also in increased content volume, streamlined operations, and the elimination of reliance on external tools for paraphrasing, spell checking, and grammar verification. With time, it will continue to increase the efficiency and productivity of the editorial team as it allows for more focus on strategic and creative aspects of content development.”

    Excited about this innovative partnership, Jagran New Media COO Gaurav Arora said, “We’re thrilled to build a cutting-edge Smart Content Management System (CMS) and it has already had a transformative impact on JNM’s content creation. We’re confident it will streamline internal processes, foster efficiency and agility, and facilitate cross-platform synergy. In essence, the Smart CMS is not just a technological upgrade but a strategic enabler aligning with JNM’s commitment to delivering impactful content experiences.”

    Through automated generation and summarisation, the CMS system amplifies the volume of content produced, reduces the reliance on third-party tools, and streamlines the content creation process while ensuring internal stakeholder management, enabling the creation of immersive articles that captivate the audience. For SEO optimisation, the CMS has helped with JNM’s performance in search engine rankings with the automatic generation of SEO scores and tags, catchy headlines, moderating video content according to Google’s guidelines, calculating readability scores, and suggesting SEO-friendly keywords. The platform manages planned and spontaneous articles, allowing for automatic reflection of backend changes to the frontend, ensuring a cohesive and consistent user experience. It has also accelerated application rollouts and simplified the management of new property launches.

    This collaboration signifies a significant leap forward in content management technology, and we are excited about its transformative impact on the digital landscape.

  • Vishvas.news launches ‘Sach Ke Sathi Seniors’ against online misinformation

    Vishvas.news launches ‘Sach Ke Sathi Seniors’ against online misinformation

    Mumbai: Jagran New Media’s internationally awarded and trusted fact-checking wing, Vishvasnews.com, launches “Sach Ke Sathi: Seniors”, a media literacy campaign to help senior citizens learn how to detect online misinformation, protect themselves from deepfakes and access trustworthy news and information.

    SKS Seniors – the seventh edition of Jagran New Media’s flagship media literacy effort Sach Ke Sathi – has been launched by Vishvasnews.com in collaboration with MICA as its Academic Partner, and is supported by the Google News Initiative. Two other fact-checkers – Fact Crescendo, and News Meter have also joined hands with SKS Seniors as its language partners to take the initiative forward in local languages. The campaign focuses on imparting media literacy training to senior citizens, who are more vulnerable to false information and aims to impart skills to better navigate the digital information landscape.

    SKS Seniors will go live in 50 cities, covering 15 states in seven languages and will host 70 training sessions – 40 on-ground and 30 online. In addition to this, SKS will also launch a first-of-its-kind micro-learning video course on media literacy and promote media literacy through its print editions.

    Commenting on the launch, Jagran New Media CEO Bharat Gupta said, “The collaboration between Vishvasnews.com, Google News Initiative (GNI), the fact-checking community, and MICA fulfils our objective to address the critical issue of media literacy specifically within the senior demographic, with a focus on digital safety and fact-checking. Built upon shared synergy, the 7th edition of Sach ke Sathi will enable us to collectively prioritize the advancement of media literacy among seniors and create a robust foundation for a digitally literate society. It has been our endeavour at Jagran New Media to follow the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that underline our dedication to this important cause.”

    Jagran New Media editor-in-chief Rajesh Upadhyay added, “We are thrilled to continue another chapter of Sach Ke Sathi and elevate the initiative’s standards by tailoring the approach to address many unique challenges faced by senior citizens in the age of misinformation, like limited digital literacy and fact-checking skills. The main focus is on providing senior citizens with essential tools and knowledge for awareness of digital safety and misinformation/disinformation through various training done by the fact-checking community and our academic partner, MICA. A well-devised communication and outreach plan has been implemented to ensure that the programme effectively reaches its intended audience, with a range of measurement approaches to assess the programme’s impact at various stages.”

    Google News Lab lead in India Surabhi Malik said, “Sach ke Sathi Seniors is a much-needed collaborative media literacy effort that will empower senior citizens with critical thinking skills, help them detect misinformation and also prepare them to tackle deep fakes. Mis and disinformation is a serious problem that clogs the information pipeline and prevents the flow of trustworthy & authoritative information, which is all the more crucial during elections. We are proud to support this collaborative initiative that will help participants better assess the credibility of information available online.”

    MICA associate professor, Head of Media and Entertainment Management Area and Centre for Media and Entertainment Studies (CMES) Santosh K Patra added, “As the academic partner of Sach Ke Saathi Seniors, we see it as an opportunity to address the issue of digital information literacy with Vishvas News. We have designed a curriculum by adopting an interactive and learner-centric pedagogy that not only imparts knowledge but also fosters critical thinking skills to tackle the challenges of fake news, misinformation, disinformation and misinformation which is prevalent like a menace in our society today.”

    Sach Ke Sathi was launched in 2019 by Vishvasnews.com and Jagran New Media with a mission to combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation. SKS won Wan-Ifra’s Best Trust Initiative Silver Award in 2023 and IAMAI’s 2022 Bronze for best content campaign.

    The previous six editions dealt with crucial subjects such as Health Fact Check, Bihar Elections, Yes for Vaccine, Assembly Elections 2022, FactsUp, and more. Over the years, Sach ke Sathi has achieved significant success in raising awareness about the societal effects of misinformation and fake news, as well as providing the tools and training needed to identify misinformation at a larger level.

     

  • Jagran New Media launches Gujaratijagran.com

    Jagran New Media launches Gujaratijagran.com

    Mumbai: Jagran New Media expands its digital footprint in the state of Gujarat with the launch of GujaratiJagran.com. It is said that Gujarati is the most widely spoken regional language, both nationally and internationally. The aim is to bring real-time news and information to the state of Gujarat and to the Gujarati-speaking population. Users will have access to a one-stop destination for national and local news updates, as well as exclusive content covering entertainment, markets, stocks, lifestyle, and astrology, among other things.

    The inauguration ceremony was graced by Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Bhai Patel in Ahmedabad. At the launch, Minister of social justice and empowerment Pradip Kumar and minister for labour, skills development and employment Brijesh Merja, to name a few, were present.

    Jagran New Media CEO Bharat Gupta said, “It is vital to recognise the potential of regional languages, as we are proud to have accomplished this feat in the Hindi heartland. Our goal is to provide our users with trusted local, reliable, and factual information that is instantly available online. As a content-first platform, we believe in providing engaging, credible, and factual content, which is the biggest challenge in the online news ecosystem. Languages are an important part of our culture, and as a leading news and publishing platform, we are excited to launch Jagran.com in Gujarati, which will improve and enrich our audience. As we proceed, language expansion will play a vital role in our audience growth strategy and take us closer to our mission of inclusive and progressive India.”

    Speaking on the announcement, Jagran.com editor-in-chief Rajesh Upadhyay said, “We take this opportunity to serve the Gujarati-speaking audience base, nationally and internationally. It will be our goal to showcase the grandeur and the essence of the state through carefully crafted news and informational pieces that are accessible to audiences all over the world. There are many parts of our country where relevant, credible, and trusted knowledge and information are missing owing to a scarcity of language content. Through this platform, we will showcase content which is especially created for Gujarati-speaking readers. With the launch of Gujarati Jagran, we bring to the Gujarati speaking audiences our unique brand of solution journalism, which differentiates Jagran from the crowd.’’

    GujratiJagran.com aims to bring the Jagran Group’s journalism to the readers of Gujarat and spread across the globe. This initiative ensures access to the vast news network of Jagran, factual and investigative reports from Jagran Prime and fact-checked stories from Vishwas News. The website will cover updates from the local and different parts of the country, catering to news, politics, stock market, sports, astrology, lifestyle and health.