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)