Google pledges IPI grant to promote innovation in online journalism
Google has pledged $2.7 million to the International Press Institute in Vienna in an effort to boost non-profit organizations devoted to innovating journalism.
40% of the total fund was recently allocated to the Knight Foundation in the United States, and the money donated to the IPI will be used to sponsor the IPI News Innovation Contest in September.
Google said in a company blog that they wished to “find and fund breakthrough ideas that will have a lasting impact on the future of digital news in communities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa”.
Grants will be awarded to both non-profit and for-profit organisations working on digital journalism initiatives, including open-source and mobile technology projects created by or for journalists and distributed in the public interest.