Applications Invited for JournalismAI Innovation Challenge

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About the Organization

JournalismAI is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

We support innovation and capacity-building in news organisations to make the potential of AI more accessible and to counter inequalities in the global news media around AI through our various programmes.

About the Grant

The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, is a programme to fund projects from a wide range of news publishers to foster AI literacy and implementation through targeted innovation and experimentation.

This nine-month long programme is designed by the JournalismAI team, an initiative of Polis, the journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and supported by the Google News Initiative.

Following the success of the first cohort of the Innovation Challenge, and as part of our continued efforts to foster AI literacy, implementation and experimentation, we are excited to launch the second edition of this programme.

The programme is targeted at small and medium-sized news publishers who are already exploring the possibilities of AI technologies.

Grants will be awarded as follows:

• 8 ideas will receive US $50,000 each
• 4 ideas will receive US $100,000 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 small and medium-sized news publishers (10-200 personnel) that are already exploring the possibilities of AI technologies.
• 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 grants should not focus on the creation of tools for newsgathering, verifying information,  fact-checking, detecting misinformation or original journalism. Eligible ideas will utilise AI for audience intelligence and revenue growth.
• You are willing to share business insights and openly collaborate with other grantees, as well as track results throughout and submit a report of your performance at the end of the programme.
• Please note that only publishers whose primary focus is news publication will be considered.
• Publishers who were awarded grants as part of the first JournalismAI Innovation Challenge are not eligible to apply to this challenge.

Eligible geographies

• Geographically, news organisations must be owned and operating in the following countries, where they primarily serve the citizens of the country where they are based:
• Asia Pacific: Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia,  New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
• Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
• Middle East and Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, Turkey, UAE.
• United States
• Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay.

How to Apply

lease submit your application in English using the provided Google form. Contact us if you have any concerns about accessing the application or providing responses in English.

For preparation only, please find in this Google Doc all the questions of the form below. You can make a copy of the document. The Google Doc is not needed for the application, it is just a resource to help you prepare to fill the form below.

Submit Your Application

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