A new global fund to support newsrooms to use AI from the LSE
While many, mainly larger and some well resourced newsrooms have benefited and seen the transformative power of AI, smaller newsrooms often face unique challenges in adopting this technology. A number of small and medium-sized publishers are already exploring the possibilities of AI technologies. 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.
Grants will be awarded for proposals in three areas: fighting disinformation; new formats and new ways to engage audiences; ways to boost revenue.
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).
