Google News Initiative (GNI) YouTube Innovation Funding 2018 for News Organizations (Up to $250,000)

*Deadline: October 12, 2018*

The Google News Initiative (GNI) YouTube Innovation Funding
is open for applications. Funding that is designed to enable innovation
in video journalism. Through this program, they will provide selected
news organizations around the world with grants to support building
stronger video capabilities and innovating with video formats.

Best practices gained from this program will be shared publicly,
providing all newsrooms the opportunity to learn and apply insights as
they work together to support the development of long-term, sustainable
video businesses.

*Grants*

Grant size will vary based on the application details and may be valued
up to approximately $250,000 USD.

*Eligibility*

  * Eligible projects must come from publishers, broadcasters, agencies,
    video creators and production companies that aim to produce news
    content that is factual, informative, and trustworthy.
    Collaborations amongst applicants are welcome.
  * Eligible projects must demonstrate a scrupulous approach to
    journalistic practices including but not limited to news-gathering,
    fact checking, objectivity, balance and ethics.
  * Eligible projects must focus on building capabilities to create
    video programming focused on topical news, current affairs and
    politics in formats that follow YouTube best practices and/or
    demonstrate a strategy to develop new formats to grow an engaged
    audience.
  * Eligible applicants must demonstrate at least a basic level of video
    production and operations expertise and manage at least one YouTube
    channel with a minimum of 50,000 subscribers.


Countries:
They will accept applications from organizations headquartered in
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greater
China, Finland, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, United Kingdom,
United States, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam.

 Requirements

   *Capability building: Grants should be used to build more
    sustainable video operations rather than a specific piece or pieces
    of content. For example, the grant might be used to enhance
    production facilities, train staff on video best practices or grow
    teams that will enable your organization to develop that great news
    format optimized for online video.
  * Funding should not be used for outsourcing production or licensing
    content wholesale from third-parties.
  *Content category: Grants should be used to facilitate the creation
    of news video, topical news, current affairs and politics. They are
    not looking for proposals geared to facilitate the creation of
    non-video, non-news or verticalized news content e.g. celebrity,
    sports, technology news. Where rights permit, the video output
    should be made available globally.
  *Funding model: Grant size will vary based on the application
    details and may be valued up to approximately $250,000 USD. As the
    application process moves forward, they will work with you to
    determine the appropriate grant size based on the proposal.
 *They are looking for proposals where the news organization is
    equally invested in the success of the project, demonstrating a
    commitment to building out capabilities. As such, successful
    applications will include co-resource investment, which may include
    staffing or production resources.
*Ecosystem sharing: Successful applicants should be willing to
    showcase the projects and learnings that result from innovation
    funding, including the publishing of public case studies to be
    shared with news organizations around the world.

 Selection Criteria
Eligible projects will be evaluated primarily against the following
criteria:

   Innovation:Preferred projects will demonstrate an innovative
    component and involve or promote the production of original journalism.
   Sustainability: Preferred projects will demonstrate a plan for
    long term sustainability.

 Application
In order to assess applications they will need information such as:

  * Company information including headquarters location, URL, number of
    employees, number of journalists employed

  * Project description

  * Project budget and amount of funding requested for all costs
    associated with the project including where relevant, but not
    limited to, production team, on-screen contributors and talent,
    equipment, post production, graphics, music and music licensing,
    news footage/archive sourcing and clearance, fact checking, direct
    production travel, location/studio, insurance, health and safety and
    legal costs.

All required information is included in the application form.

Application deadline is October 12, 2018 at 23.59 PST. No applications
will be accepted after this date. Successful applicants will be notified
by December 1, 2018.

Click here to apply

For more information, visit  GNI YouTube Innovation Funding

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