Deadline: October 10, 2024
Applications are open for the JounalismAI Innovation Challenge 2024-2025. While many, mainly larger and some well-resourced newsrooms have benefited and seen the transformative power of AI, smaller newsrooms often face unique challenges in adopting this technology. A number of small and medium-sized publishers are already exploring the possibilities of AI technologies. The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects/tools from these news publishers to help fight misinformation and disinformation, experiment with new formats across mobile, video and audio and identify ways to grow subscription and support diverse forms of revenue.
This nine-month long programme is designed by the JournalismAI team at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and supported by the Google News Initiative.
The grants will be awarded to organisations who seek to work on the following thematic areas:
- Help fight misinformation and disinformation
- Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences
- Identify ways to grow subscription and support diverse forms of revenue
Benefits
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10 ideas will receive $250,000 each
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25 ideas will receive $50,000 each
Eligibility
- Government-owned entities or entities affiliated/owned by a political party are not eligible to apply.
- Eligible applicants must have a verifiable digital presence (such as a website primarily providing journalistic content) and have been in full operation – and active with recent content – for at least 12 months preceding the call for applications
- Eligible applicants must be able to launch, implement, and measure the impact of the grant on their organisation within a maximum nine (9) month period.
- This is not a reporting or storytelling grant and funding must not be used to report and produce stories primarily. Eligible ideas will use AI to focus and develop solutions for these thematic areas;
- Help fight misinformation and disinformation
- Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences across mobile, video, audio.
- Identify ways to grow subscriptions and support diverse forms of revenue.
- You are willing to share business insights and openly collaborate with other grantees, as well as track results throughout and submit a short report of your performance at the end of the programme.
To apply, click here