Helping hyperlocal stories monetise at a national level
Ping! is a distribution platform that allows national media outlets to purchase local news content, whilst ensuring hyperlocal news journalists receive fair compensation.
Telling local stories
Projects that use innovation to ensure that local and smaller publishers have a louder voice in the digital space.
15% of the fund supported local journalism projects
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.
Telling local stories
La Voz de Galicia: Your local digest
Two projects which enable journalists to identify and publish stories that are most relevant to local audiences.
Local News Engine: Needles in haystacks
Local News Engine uses algorithms to generate leads for potential news stories from local data.Now complete, it is available to all via GitHub.
Other themes
Battling misinformation
Projects that work to defend and protect quality journalism by using fact-checking and other technologies to combat misinformation.
Boosting digital revenue
Projects that work to defend and protect quality journalism by using fact-checking and other technologies to combat misinformation.
Exploring new technologies
Projects that use digital technology to automate work-streams or content in order to support original journalism or improve the reader experience.
DNI Fund Report 2020
Explore this year's report to find out about projects that have been supported by the DNI Fund and the impact they’re having in newsrooms across Europe.