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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Germany Neue Welle Rundfunk-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

3rd Space Audio (Round 5)

Radio is one of the next media markets to be disrupted, clearly shown by the rising popularity of smart speakers. Neue Welle wants to help existing publishers to transform their business into the new markets.

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Latvia The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica

4Facts.org (Round 3)

We are trying to expose fake news and unreliable information sources, which has done a huge damage for trust to media, politics and are even used as weapon in disinformation war in a specific regions (like the Baltic countries, for example).

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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.

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Italy Catchy S.r.l.

A Data Compass

A fact-checking platform to select, interpret and visualize reliable information, connecting events to reliable news, filtering false news and misleading sources. Focusing on reliable media links, no matter how small, while pinpointing the false, tainted, unreliable sources.

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Portugal Diario De Noticias Da Madeira

A region that brings us together (Round 3)

The project allows REGIÃO DE LEIRIA to deal with three main problems. 1) Audience: the project will increase the number of readers and engage them in a simple and funny news-reporting process with the World Reporter mobile app. 2) Monetization: a new source of revenue will appear when advertisers and sponsors become aware this platform is a well-aimed shot to a desirable and large audience (emigrants). 3) Business model: for the company this will be a major step towards digital transformation. Putting all the team looking into data generated by digital will have a positive impact in all departments, demanding new processes and functions.

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Spain Politibot Innovación, S.L.

A tool to publish nonfiction series in messaging apps and monetise it (Round 4)

Politibot was born as an experiment to cover the Spanish election in June 2016. Having proved it’s possible to create a valuable messaging news product people are willing to pay for, the team are now applying the experience with messaging apps to create nonfiction series, branching out from breaking news. Multimedia elements will include testimonials in audio and video, or information unlocked by sharing your location. By integrating the tool with Stripe or Patreon, readers will be able to pay for the series.

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Romania Journalism Development Network (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)

A Turnkey Data Platform for Investigative Teams

Data defines 21st century journalism, and has been behind some of its greatest successes, but as journalists we need to change the way we work to unlock its full potential. OCCRP is committed to reinventing investigative journalism for the information age so that we can tell the big stories about corruption and organized crime. Those crimes can't be investigated effectively without new tools to follow illegal asset flows from autocracies to corrupt banks to offshore tax havens.

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