Google Digital News Initiative
On Wednesday, Google has announced that 128 projects were selected during the first funding round of its Google Digital News Initiative. According to public sources, the following projects have received Google DNI funding.
If you know of a project not in our list, please let us know by e-mail or join the conversation on our community page.
Summary of the Google DNI funding round
- Total allocation: 27 mio EUR
- Number of participants: 1200
- Winners: 128 projects (10,7% of participants)
- Average project allocation: 210.000 EUR per project
Germany
- Total allocation: 4,9 mio EUR (18%)
- Projects funded:
- Spectrm: will build an artificial intelligence engine to help publishers communicate directly with readers–and distribute content–on a 1:1 basis through instant messaging apps.
- Tagesspiegel: online debating magazine Causa
- OpenDataCity: data sensor journalism
- Golem.de: prototype for linguistic content analysis
- Wirtschaftswoche: automated research tool
- Deutsche Welle’s Innovation Projects Team : Verify.Media (we’re not online yet) — A tool to support verification of User Generated Content
- Rhein-Zeitung: App connecting personal social media messages and mails with local news
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ): Personalised news for subscribers, based on an intelligent software, curating content for smartphone, tablet and PC.
- NextMediaAccelerator: Spectrm – An Artificial intelligence engine to help publishers communicate directly with readers
- VRagments: Fader – A technical solution that will allow newsrooms to create and publish VR stories in an easy-to-handle way.
- Edenspiekermann: a new post-publishing tool for journalists that will suggest the right action at the right moment
- Bauhaus University – Clickbait – Clickbait language investigation in communication is key to build automatic identification technology
- Other: Athens Technology Centre zusammen mit Deutsche Welle, Headline24 and dpa
United Kingdom
- Total allocation: 2,8 mio EUR (10%)
- Projects funded:
- The Telegraph: Real-time Sports Action Visualiser
- The Financial Times: a platform which auto-creates story templates when anomalous financial market events occur in real-time, allowing journalists to identify breaking news
- TalkAboutLocal: Local News Engine – A tool to mine local public data for leads for local news stories and produce reports customised to fit in with a journalists workflow.
- Trinity Mirror: Perpecs – A news app that presents three sides to a news story, allowing users to switch between different news sources presenting different views
- The Bureau: Local Journalism Project – Ensure better transparency and accountability in the way taxpayers’ money is spent.
Spain
- Total allocation: 2,5 mio EUR (9%)
- Projects funded:
- eldiario.es : will create a new journalism crowdfunding system that will identify niche groups of audiences and invite them to fund a specific story.
- Prisa Radio: HERTZ – wants to solve the problem of finding Spanish audio content online, by applying big data technologies, natural language processing, biometrics, semantization and labeling.
- El Pais: El Pais – HD – Aimes to improve the production and distribution of audiovisual content, by helping the journalists detect viral audiovisual content in real time.
France
- Total allocation: 2,3 mio EUR (8%)
- Projects funded:
- AFP: platform for interactive infographics
- Le Monde: Hoaxbusters
- The Conversation France: development of data driven infographics
- Wan-Ifra: Media Management Accelerator – Open platform to promote the development of new business models, train top talent in media companies and accelerate their transformation.
Belgium
- Total allocation: 2,3 mio EUR (8%)
- Projects funded:
- De Persgroep: Digital News Rack platform to distribute digital publications in public locations
- Mediahuis & Twipe: Reader Engagement Insights for digital publications integrated within the daily newspaper creation process.
- Les Journaux Francophones Belges Rossel (Le Soir), IPM (La Libre Belgique) and L’Avenir : personalized news, integrated with the news websites of these publishers
- Mediafin (De Tijd & L’Echo): providing readers with personalised political, economical and financial news
- Roularta Media (Knack, Trends) : Robot Metadata to tag articles and audiovisual data with metadata and other rich content
- VRT, iMinds and NewsMonkey: algorithm to predict virality of articles on social media
Switzerland
- Total allocation: 1,8 mio EUR (7%)
- Projects funded:
- NZZ: Personal Companion app
- Tageswoche: CityTalk project (input from citizens and direct feedback to editors on local topic)
- AZ Medien: local petition portal stimulating citizens to bring up new ideas or important issues
- Blasting News: First global platform for social journalism
- Scitec Media and Interactive Things: New online-article Format – New format focusing on the readers, allowing them to combine content according to personal interest, available time and need.
Italy
- Total allocation: 1,5 mio EUR (6%)
- Projects funded:
- NZZ: Personal Companion app
- Tageswoche: CityTalk project (input from citizens and direct feedback to editors on local topic)
- Viz & Chips: The Press Match – A matchmaker portal for Journalists and distributors of press releases: Matching the right people with the right messages
- Lettera43: FreeJourn – A collaborative platform that reinvents the role of journalists and freelance photo-/video-reporters
The Netherlands
- Total allocation: 1 mio EUR (4%)
- Projects funded:
- Blasting News: collaborative news creation, curation and social distribution platform for journalists
- ANP and WizeNoze: Children’s News Service – Make news accessible for young readers by semiautomatically converting content from ANP to versions with simpler reading level
- NewAtoms: editorial.supply – A platform to outsource your editorial work and get highly specialised articles for publication on your website.
Austria
- Total allocation: 258.000 EUR (1%)
- Projects funded:
- Der Standard: improved Forum Moderation for Community Manager by using Artificial Intelligence
- NewsGenie: collaborative mobile news service
- NIMEH & Partners: NewGenie – A new collaborative and curated Mobile News and Content Service, specifically designed to help independent publishers reach millennial consumers
Poland
- Total allocation: 1.5 mio EUR (6%)
- Projects funded:
- Polityka: Project digital Politik
- naTemat.pl: NaTemat Portal – Online service providing basic of knowledge of main themes of political and social discussion
- Agora Radio Group: Microphone TOK FM – Online platform and application allowing listeners to co-broadcast, by sending in UGC (audio)
- Gazeta Wyborcza & BIQdata.pl – Overexpose Politicians – Making actions and initiatives of politicians in the parliament and local governments more transparent for the people
Czech Republic
- Total allocation: 792,951 EUR (3%)
- Projects funded:
- Sourcefabric: Live Coverage Ecosystem – Allows syndication of resources between news agencies and their clients
Slovenia
- Total allocation: 331,860 EUR (1%)
- Projects funded:
- Danes je now dan: Parameter – A parliament tracker to visualise data on the work of the National Assembly with analyses of voting records and transcripts.
Portugal
- Total allocation: 1.9 mio EUR (7%)
- Projects funded:
Finland
- Total allocation: 554.830 EUR (2%)
- Projects funded:
- Streamer and Alma Media: Machine augmented financial journalism
Sweden
- Total allocation: 638.040 EUR (2%)
- Projects funded:
- Bambuser: project unknown
Denmark
- Total allocation: 50.000 EUR (<1%)
- Projects funded:
- DanWatch: Supply Chain Project – A tool to map the supply chain for products and make data transparent to consumers.
Other
- Projects funded:
- Euronews: Virtual Reality Journalism – A 360 video project
Update 10/3/2016:
We have updated our list based on List of Google DNI funded projects of Til Man, a journalist who works for German publisher Deutsche Welle’s innovation team (DW won some of the funding).
Also Niemanlab has written a story about the 128 winners of the Google Digital News Initiative.
