Posted by Benoit Lafortune, Sr. Strategist Google News, and Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager Video has always been a unique storytelling tool, especially useful when reporting the news. From raw, citizen-reported videos from the streets of Tehran , to student documentaries highlighting under-reported issues in local communities, or investigative reporting done by professional news outlets, just about every type of news video can now be found on YouTube.

Posted by Eric Zhang, Software Engineer For the last few months we've been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we're releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for Wordpress. Now anyone who publishes through Wordpress can use the plugin to organize coverage of an ongoing event on a single dynamic page.

Posted by Chris Gaither, Senior Manager, Global Communications & Public Affairs This week, hundreds of newsroom leaders from across the country are gathered in Washington DC for the American Society of News Editors' annual conference. The theme of this year's event is "ideas," and Eric Schmidt shared many of his as the opening speaker. He spoke about some of the big trends that are shaping the Internet, such as the rise of mobile and cloud computing,

Posted by Ankit "Chunky" Gupta )Software Engineer( and Alok Goel )Product Manager( [ cross-posted from the Official Google Mobile Blog ] At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. Today we're excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users.

Posted by Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead [cross-posted from the Google Webmaster Central Blog ] During my stint on the " How Google Works Tour: Seattle ", I heard plenty of questions regarding News Search from esteemed members of the press, such as The Stranger , The Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly . After careful note-taking throughout our conversations,

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager We're constantly talking with web publishers, including those in the news industry, about how their content is indexed by search engines. Last week in Europe, a group of newspaper and magazine publishers signed a declaration stating that "Universal access to websites does not necessarily mean access at no cost," and that they "no longer wish to be forced to give away property without having granted permission." We agree,

Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager We're always looking for ways to enhance the way people consume the news, and we have some improvements planned over the next few months. To get things started, Google News and YouTube are teaming up to help news publishers build a bigger audience for their video content. Today we are inviting any professional news outlet that is already included as one of the 25,

Posted by Nandini Seshadri, Software Engineer When you visit Google News, you see the day's top news stories organized by section. You can then click through to any number of sources to read the news from different perspectives. Yet by their succinct nature, individual articles can only give partial snapshots of news stories that often develop over time, whether it's a couple of hours, days, or even weeks. Last week,

Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager As we mentioned last month , for some time we've been experimenting with a variety of ads on Google News. Our goal with all these programs is to provide the best experience for users, advertisers and publishers. You've already seen some examples such as ads in search results for news and ads in videos from our YouTube partners. Starting today, you'll also begin to see ads alongside full text articles that we host on Google News.

Posted by Abe Epton, News Support Team Today we're launching the new version of the Google News Help Forum )formerly known as the Help Group(, and we encourage you to check it out and post a question or two. The new forum incorporates a number of features we've heard requested, and we think the new format will make it even easier for questions to find answers. If you'd like to view a post from the previous version of the Forum , you can still search the Help Center for it,

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager Our friends at the Toolbar team recently launched Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer out of beta in 40 languages. To celebrate this occasion and Toolbar's upcoming eighth birthday , we upgraded our Google News Toolbar gadget: You'll now find tabs with different Google News sections embedded directly into the toolbar, so you can read the news as soon as it breaks, browse top news headlines and images,

Posted by Rohit Ananthakrishna, Software Engineer Over the last few weeks we've presented a number of new language launches for Google News: 9 new editions in Africa , a Turkish edition and a Malayalam language edition in India. We're proud to present the three newest members of the Google News family: editions for Malaysia , Philippines and Pakistan . These are all English language editions. So, what does it mean to launch a new edition of Google News in a country?

Posted by Divon Lan, Product Manager Google News is a truly international project, spanning dozens of countries and over 20 languages. But that still leaves plenty of countries without their own dedicated edition of Google News. Today, we are delighted to announce that we've made great progress in our quest to give Google News an even more global reach, by adding 9 more countries to our repertoire. If you head down to the bottom of any Google News page,

Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager Aggregators like Google News were today the subject of news â€" this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was indexed by Google News, here are the details: On Saturday, September 6th at 10:36PM Pacific,

Posted by Vinodh Kumar, Kiran Gunda and Prasanna Meda, Software Engineers வணக்கம். தமிழில் செய்திகள்! )Greetings, News In Tamil!( It's not every day that you get to launch a product in a more than 2,000-year-old language spoken by more than 70 million people. That's why we're excited to tell you that Google News is now available in Tamil . Tamil is one of the most widely-spoken languages in India,

Posted by Håvard Kvålen, Robert Leland and Amund Tveit, Software Engineers As we sat in our offices in Trondheim staring off at the fjord - we're Norwegians, that's what we do - a thought occurred to us: wouldn't it be nice to make Google News accessible to readers on their iPod Touch or iPhone? The rest, as they say, is history. Today, we're happy to announce that Google News is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch users in over 30 countries.