- Grant Amount – $50,000–$100,000
- Deadline – December 03, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The JournalismAI, a global initiative based at LSE in partnership with the Google News Initiative, has opened its Innovation Challenge programme designed for small and medium-sized news publishers exploring the potential of artificial intelligence.
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This programme offers news organisations the opportunity to design and test innovative AI applications while participating in a collaborative learning network that is shaping the future of journalism worldwide.
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The challenge focuses on ideas that use artificial intelligence to deepen audience insights, strengthen business models, and support long-term organisational resilience. It does not fund reporting projects, storytelling initiatives, fact-checking tools, or newsgathering technologies. Instead, eligible concepts must leverage AI specifically to support audience intelligence, business innovation, and revenue-generation strategies. Over a nine-month period, selected teams will design, implement, and measure the impact of their AI solution, supported by expert mentorship and peer learning.
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Funding Information
- Grants will be awarded as follows: eight ideas will receive US $50,000 each, and four ideas will receive US $100,000 each.
- This allows both early exploratory projects and more advanced proposals to benefit from targeted support.
Eligibility:
- Only small and medium-sized news publishers with 10–200 staff who are already exploring AI technologies may apply, and they must be able to implement and evaluate their project within the nine-month grant period.
- A series of strict eligibility criteria apply. Government-owned entities or those affiliated with political parties are not eligible.
- Applicants must have a verifiable digital presence—such as a journalism-focused website—and must have been fully operational with recent content for at least 12 months prior to applying.
- Importantly, this programme is open only to publishers whose primary focus is news, and organisations that previously received funding from the first JournalismAI Innovation Challenge are not eligible.
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