Switzerland
Blasting News Ltd.
Blasting News
The first European crowd-based news service
DNI Fund Projects
The €150 million DNI Fund supported 662 digital news projects in 30 European countries. Take a closer look at some of the projects.
Switzerland
Le Temps SA
A Bot Called Zombie That Can Identify an Online Newspaper's Best Articles and Assess When and Why to Republish Them
Good articles increase loyalty among readers and create engagement. It therefore makes sense to republish these ‘evergreen’ articles whenever they relate to current events. Our bot Zombie will find Le Temps’ best articles and tell when and why they should republish them.
Switzerland
AZ Digital (AZ Zeitungen AG)
Project KOLIBRI: The Mobile App Framework
Project KOLIBRI aims to build an app framework that allows publishers to quickly, economically, and sustainably maintain mobile apps.
Switzerland
AZ Management Services AG
Oyez (Round 3)
Government authorities in Switzerland are required to provide quick, comprehensive, and factual information about their actions. In order for citizens to exercise their political rights, this information has to be available for the public. On the municipal level this is done through printed publications and mostly posted as PDF files on municipality websites. Oyez’s innovation is in its web-compatible and structured publication of this data. Oyez wants to make this information more easily accessible for search engines, and simpler for citizens to find and browse. This data can, in turn, be the basis for journalistic content of significant relevance to readers of regional daily newspapers.
Switzerland
Tamedia
CommentView (Round 3)
To meet the full potential of its titles' large news sites communities, Tamedia would like to develop new tools to handle the growing number of user comments. Using open source natural language processing software we want to separate the toxic from the valuable user comments - to create digestible visual and written summaries of long comment streams on our news sites. Thereby rewarding dedicated readers and increasing engagement of both readers and journalists.
Switzerland
FixxPunkt
project pili-ana (Round 3)
When trolls overrun comments sections, when fake news seem just as trustworthy as original reporting, media are failing and democracy is in danger. It is essential that journalists take the initiative and enter into discussion with their audience. They need to answer questions directly, challenge alternate facts, and help the public discourse along the way. Pili-ana is an open-source, mobile-friendly web application highlighting the most relevant discussions and comments. The mobile-friendly GUI will allow journalists to efficiently interact with the highlighted opportunities, approve or delete user comments, reply to user comments.