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.

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Netherlands De Volkskrant, part of De Persgroep

De Volkskrant Guide to Life (Round 5)

De Volkskrant has been publishing highly informative articles on topics that suit The Guide to Life since the beginning of the last century. They have augmented this content further with new multimedia formats. Instead of being scattered over different days and newspaper sections, this project will enable bundling our best articles - new and from our archives - to provide high-value information packages to the reader. In this way, they can serve the reader better and unlock the treasure trove of our archive.

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Netherlands RTL Nieuws, part of RTL Nederland

Your News, Our News (Round 5)

RTL Nieuws aims to touch people in heart and mind. RTL believes that local news is key to this, but a nationwide journalistic organization does not scale easily to local news coverage. In this project, they leverage data and AI technologies to generate more local stories, making the coverage more engaging and personal. By reducing the effort involved in writing and publishing local stories at scale, data journalists can connect to the news cycle more easily, providing a new way of telling the news story of the day and truly drive it home.

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Netherlands The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV)

FAIRview (Round 5)

There’s a growing demand from consumers to watch instead of reading news. To stay in tune with these changing viewing habits, news broadcasts are distributed in smaller units (atomised news). FAIRview presents a timely solution to this manual effort, by generating adaptive news video summaries suitable for distribution on social media, as well as on the archive’s own video search environment. Secondly, as “fake videos” are on the rise as digital video manipulation techniques advance, FAIRview develops metrics to assess the quality of the video summaries and their potential for misinformation.

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Netherlands Het Financieele Dagblad B.V. (part of FD Mediagroep B.V.)

TL;DR - A personalized summary of your news (Round 4)

Analysing content and creating accurate summaries is still a manual task. Providing a single summary, let alone multiple summaries, for every FD article is a monumental task and would require a serious investment in time or money, which should be spent on creating more high-quality journalism. TL;DR will automate this process by building a model using the latest AI/ML techniques that analyses content to provide multiple summaries, which can be combined with our recommendation engine or help increase the availability of content. The result will be a landing page that not only contains the information you’re interested in, but also presents it in a way that matches your reading style. This will be a valuable addition for current subscribers, and a new product to attract new customers looking for a quick and user-friendly update of the latest financial news.

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Netherlands Publicism B.V.

Publicism - Using blockchain technology to support journalism (Round 4)

Free press is under siege. In 2016 it reached its lowest point in twelve years, as political, criminal and terrorist forces sought to co-opt or silence the media in their broader struggle for power. To counter this, Publicism have designed a blockchain-based platform, whose architecture is a combination of: a blockchain network for publishing, a blockchain network for bitcoin payments, a bitcoin wallet, encrypted safe data storage, a gatekeeper and a gateway to the internet.

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Netherlands Katalysis B.V. (parent company is Katalysis Holding B.V.)

Katalysis (Round 4)

This project will explore how digital content can be sold or licensed based on the live consumption of end users. When it comes to content distribution, the full potential of the internet has not been unlocked. Katalysis will build a system that stores the links between the article and other embedded materials on a blockchain. One direction of the blockchain link keeps track of the original content owner. The other distributes value to the owner, based on an agreed scheme, upon consumption. Publishers will be forced to rethink their monetisation strategies, changing how content is created and valued.

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Netherlands nwzer

Wisdom of Crowds Machine (Round 4)

User generated content is active. Websites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Wikitribune and Wikipedia allow for a broad spectrum of user inputs, that are potentially moldable into semantically correct and sensible articles. However, it has proven to be a huge challenge to combine all these inputs; parallel collaboration is prone to errors. Different inputs can conflict, erase or duplicate content. nwzer's Wisdom of Crowds Machine allows for smart stitching without the hassle of manual maintenance. It allows for real-time merging of simultaneous multiple user inputs into one semantically correct article, ready for syndication.

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