Finland Aller Media Oy

Rikastamo.fi - audience data exploration portal (Round 3)

Data utilization and exploration in most organizations are typically available to a limited number of technically savvy professionals because of the high complexity of data sets and the complexity and expensiveness of the data exploration technologies and tools. Rikastamo.fi opens the complex world of data for variety of purposes by actors in organizations that can benefit from exploring and analyzing large amounts of audience data - be it marketers, journalists, analysts or R&D. The service allows exploration and utilization of vast amounts of audience data in easily comprehensible visualized ways.

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Italy Radio Radicale, Centro di Produzione

Mapping of institutional activities & political speeches (Round 3)

Journalists, researchers and citizens might find it challenging to navigate large amounts of digital recordings, in search of sections they are interested in. Automated extraction of keywords and entities from speech, along with an editing and publishing tool, will dramatically reduce the time and resources needed to accomplish this goal.

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United Kingdom AJ Labs London (Al Jazeera International)

News Immersified (Round 3)

Legacy media is grappling with the challenge of attracting younger consumers. By creating an app based on a messenger platform with a range of interactive narrative choices we will use gamification to turn passive consumers into active users to increase engagement and user retention. Interactive storytelling in newsrooms has been held back by the fact that developing, designing and coding a project costs time and money. Our app will be open-source and free for journalists and newsrooms who want to use it to bring their stories this important audience segment.

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Germany DuMont Net (DuMont Mediengruppe)

RightHere (Round 3)

User Generated Content is considered a savior and an enigma for publishers at the same time. On the one hand integrating the reader’s voice and vision into a news story, especially while it happens and with the reader on site, adds enormous value to a piece of information. On the other hand activation and verification of UGC remain hot topics to be solved by publishers.

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United Kingdom Associated Press Television News (AP)

AP Verify (Round 3)

The importance of UGC to news coverage continues to grow and is anticipated to continue in the future. However sourcing and verifying UGC takes considerable time and resource with mistakes often leading to misleading news entering the public domain. AP Verify will automatically collect and assess the data needed to verify content, saving considerable editorial time and bringing trusted content to the news viewer quicker than ever before.

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Lithuania DELFI

DEBUNK The News (Round 3)

Growing amount of fake news and propaganda is a big threat for news ecosystem in the Baltic countries. As time makes a big impact on spread of the fake content and its effect, there is a significant need to identify and report fake content immediately. There is a need for a innovative tool that helps journalists and experts to detect potentially fake content in real time.

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Italy Ced Digital & Servizi (Caltagirone Editore)

VIS: fact-checking for print and online publishers (Round 3)

VIS (Veritas In Silico) is not competing with existing fact checking initiatives but aims to build on their experiences to provide a straightforward tool to improve editorial fact checking in newsroom without disrupting or slowing down the pace of publishing processes. VIS will be operating in, both print and online, is very different from that of specialized projects uniquely geared at fact checking and operating outside the large newsroom or by dedicated teams. Because of this direct integration, VIS’ deliverables will have a significant impact on the news production ecosystem, improving quality and cutting production costs.

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Germany FUNKE Digital TV Guide (FUNKE Mediengruppe)

UNICORN project (Round 3)

Lack of collaboration amongst publications has inhibited growth of news video in the German market. This resulted not from deliberate strategies or policies, but rather from technological limitations. Incompatible platforms, technical silos and workflows made it impossible for news organizations to quickly and efficiently share their videos with others. The UNICORN project address these shortcomings by empowering editors with an easy to use tool that provides them with one-stop access to all relevant videos and that abstracts technical complexities. Curated content can then be published to all platforms with one click.

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Portugal Cofina Media

VideoBite (Round 3)

So far it is not easy to ensure that all videos can be shared effectively across different Cofinas’ brands and that new digital journalistic original products can be easily created. We want to produce short video clips that can be used to complement the existing media associated to a news article, and not only as the starting point to a news article. With VideoBite we will implement mechanisms that allow us to associate online video content to text/image based articles by means of metadata relation and to generate new revenue streams based on online video content distribution through the digital channels of Cofina’s brands.

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