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JOURNALISM AI INNOVATION CHALLENGE, SUPPORTED BY THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE

Application Deadline: 10 October 2024 [23:59, GMT].

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

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.

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.

BENEFIT:

Grants will be awarded as follows:

10 ideas will receive $250,000 each

25 ideas will receive $50,000 each

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. (Please refer to Application Terms and Conditions for details)

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION (INMA) ELEVATE SCHOLARSHIPS

Application Deadline: October 4, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The Elevate Scholarship program is designed to strengthen the future of the news business by embracing and elevating historically underrepresented and disadvantaged groups in early- to mid-level positions at news media companies in all regions of the world.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be considered for the Elevate Scholarship, you must:

Be a part of an under-represented and disadvantaged group within your country

Be actively involved in, or aspire to be an integral part of, the business side of news media subscriptions, data, product, advertising, the business of newsrooms (this is the focus of INMA training)

Be employed by a news media company

Hold a position below senior management at your organisation

Be in the business of news media for less than 15 years

Be under age 45

Aspire to become a top manager at a news media company

There is no application fee

The Elevate Scholarship is for early- to mid-level career professionals at a news media company who have a passion for the business of news media. Individuals who apply will be looking to grow their career and gather fundamental skills needed to create a sustainable business model for the future of journalism and news media. Applicants must demonstrate how they’re currently involved in the business of news media and articulate what business skills they would like to obtain in the areas of subscriptions, product, data, advertising, and the business of newsrooms.

Multiple competitions: INMA conducts multiple awards and scholarship competitions. You may apply for multiple scholarships, though winners of other INMA personal awards or scholarships in 2020-2024 are not eligible for an Elevate Scholarship.

BENEFIT:

Be recognised via public announcements by INMA

Receive a scholarship certification

Gain free access to 3 INMA Master Classes

Receive a free membership in INMA for one year — with full and unfettered access to the association’s global community

INMA will award up to 50 Elevate Scholarships based on the applicant’s needs, aspirations, barriers, and the stories they tell in the application process.

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