As the news business experiments with new ways of creating and delivering journalism in the digital age, we’re keen to offer support at the grassroots level. Over the past two years, the Google-funded IPI News Innovation Contest has awarded $2.7 million in grants to media projects throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
On September 13, we celebrated the fund’s 17 winners at the Guardian in London. The event included a Google+ Hangout on Air to allow contest winners who couldn’t make it to the event in person to participate - and to allow the public to watch.
Grants were given to both non-profit and for-profit organisations working on digital journalism initiatives, including open-source and mobile technology projects created by or for journalists and distributed in the public interest. Winners ranged from the Guardian’s own experiment with collaborative journalism to the World Wide Web Foundation’s Citizen Journalism project in Africa to Mediacenter Sarajevo’s data journalism program in Bosnia. You can find links to all the projects here.
In London, much of the discussion focused on making the winners’ innovations sustainable. IPI plans to host an ongoing online dialogue to keep track on progress. We’re delighted to be part of that conversation.
Posted by Peter Barron, Director, Communications, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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