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Digital News Innovation Fund Impact Report
The €150M Google’s Digital News Innovation Fund has supported 662 digital news projects in Europe. In our final Impact Report, discover how these projects are supporting quality journalism.
The latest from the DNI Fund
Providing real-time detection of sentiment in news
Helping hyperlocal stories monetise at a national level
Scaling fact checking with Artificial Intelligence
The public face of deepfake detection
Report Overview
Boosting Digital Revenues
Single login for Spanish local news network
Henneo's LoVer grows from zero to 500k users with a single sign-on system that collects data to serve personalised content and improve advertising.
Find out more FakeLinkTelling Local Stories
Giving local history a voice
Local Recall brings together intelligent voice infrastructure and chatbot functionalities, digitising its 150-year-old archive to create a voice-activated news service.
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Digital newsroom tunes into radio future
Observador pivoted to audio, gaining 25% of the total audio on-demand market and reached over 180k monthly unique users within one year of launch.
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Combatting online disinformation
Debunk created advanced web-scraping tools and smart filters to automatically detect potential disinformation, sending regular notifications to a network of fact checkers.
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Boosting Digital Revenues
REMP by Dennik N: Creating sustainable business models for independent journalism
REMP is an open source toolkit for subscription that helps journalists determine which content their audiences are prepared to pay for and to manage loyal readers relationship
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The Bureau Local: Helping local news have more impact
Bureau Local is bringing together journalists and volunteers to amplify local stories at a national level.
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The Enemy: Using VR to disrupt the news
The Enemy uses VR and AR to make the news a fully interactive experience.
Find out more FakeLinkBattling Misinformation
Trend Recognition for The Listening Center: Breaking the filter bubble
The Listening Center’s Trend Recognition Module developed social listening tools that allow journalists to identify breaking stories before they go viral.
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