The Google News Initiative JournalismAI Innovation Challenge 2024/2025

Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 Google News Initiative JournalismAI Innovation Challenge. The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects 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.

This new grantmaking programme will enable 35 news organisations around the world to experiment and implement solutions to enhance and improve journalistic systems and processes using AI technologies. By the end of the programme, selected organisations will also share outcomes of their respective projects, and best practices about using AI technologies in the news industry.

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Government-owned entities or entities affiliated/owned by a political party are not eligible to apply.
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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:
5. Help fight misinformation and disinformation
6. Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences across mobile, video, audio.
7. Identify ways to grow subscriptions and support diverse forms of revenue.
8. 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.

The Grant

• 10 ideas will receive $250,000 each
• 25 ideas will receive $50,000 each

Application Process

• Apply by submitting the application form. You can save the application form by clicking “save” and return to it until you have completed it and are ready to submit.
• You will be emailed a link to your application, which you can return to until 10 October 2024 [23:59, GMT]. Once the application is submitted, it can no longer be edited.
• Only applications in English, received via the Jotform platform by the stated date and time will be considered. You will receive an email confirmation of your submission.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Google News InitiativeJournalismAI Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 10 October 2024