Google is launching the North AmericanGNI Innovation
Challenge, which will fund projects that propel new ideas into the news
industry.
The search
engine giant is inviting proposals from North American news organizations for
projects focused on generating revenue and/or boosting audience engagement for
local news.
A panel of
Googlers and other tech industry executives will review the submissions and
fund selected projects up to $300,000 and finance up to 70 percent of the total
project cost. Discretion on the total project cap may be considered depending
on the scale and impact of a large collaborative application, according to
Google.
Applications
opened May 28. The deadline to submit is July 15, 2019.
Google says
the challenge is open to organizations of every size that aim to produce
innovative, original and trustworthy journalism and whose projects focus on
encouraging a more sustainable news ecosystem.
More
information is available on the how to apply page on the project. Google is holding a
YouTube town hall on the challenge with a team members Q&A on June 25 at 10
a.m. Pacific.
The North
America project follows a Google innovation challenge in Asia .
The
challenges are part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a Google effort to
work with the news industry to “help journalism thrive in the digital age.”
The
so-called duopoly of Google and Facebook have engaged with the news industry on
a number of fronts. The two powerhouses have topped America
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