How to Apply JournalismAI Innovation Challenge 2024 | Are you a journalists, technologists, and media innovators ready to showcase your talent and get up to $250,000 and $50,000? If yes, Apply JournalismAI Innovation Challenge 2024.
About JournalismAI Innovation Challenge
The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge is a global initiative that brings together journalists, technologists, and media innovators to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform the field of journalism.
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Launched by the London School of Economics (LSE) Polis and supported by the Google News Initiative, the Innovation Challenge aims to provide media organizations, particularly those in underrepresented regions, with resources and tools to experiment with AI in their reporting and newsroom operations.
Focus Areas:
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
Grants
Grants will be awarded as follows:
- 10 ideas will receive $250,000 each
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25 ideas will receive $50,000 each
NOTE: Consideration will be given to projects delivered in local languages, with efforts targeted to citizens of all ages, and to projects within both urban and rural communities.
Organisations will express which amount they are applying for in the application form.
Applicants may work on an existing proof-of-concept or submit an entirely new idea that they would like to develop into a working prototype by the end of the programme.
Eligibility
- The Programme is only open to small and medium-sized publishers (10-200 personnel) that are already exploring the possibilities of AI technologies.
- 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
- 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.
Eligible geographies
Geographically, news organisations must be owned and operating in the following countries.
- Asia Pacific: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Cook Islands, East Timor, Easter Island, Fiji, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
- Europe: Austria, Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ukraine (excluding the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR))
- Middle East and Africa: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jordan, KSA, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho, Libya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, UAE, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- North America: Canada, United States, United States Overseas Territories
- Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Navassa Island, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands
- Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
How to Apply JournalismAI Innovation Challenge 2024
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.
To help us review your application efficiently, please submit it in English using the provided online form. A version of the application form is available through this Google doc to help you fill the online form. Please contact us if you have any concerns about accessing the application or providing responses in English.
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Application Deadline: 10 October 2024
The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge is a groundbreaking initiative that has the potential to shape the future of journalism. By encouraging media organizations to embrace AI, the challenge not only promotes innovation but also addresses some of the most pressing issues facing journalism today.
From automating tasks to combating misinformation, AI-driven projects are providing the tools needed to build a more sustainable and effective media ecosystem. As the program expands to include more regions and media organizations, its impact on global journalism will continue to grow.
