Activities that can be funded (scope)

CREA-CROSS-2023-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS

NEWS – Journalism Partnerships – Collaborations

• Priority 1: Fostering collaborative business transformation
• Priority 2: Fostering collaborative journalism projects

CREA-CROSS-2023-JOURPART

NEWS – Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism

Civil society organisations active in the news media landscape are uniquely placed to provide this support, while guaranteeing the sectors’ independence and diversity. Thus, this topic invites these organisations to setup supporting schemes for news media organisations and independent journalism, as well as other capacity building measures. The proposed activities must be run by civil society organisations and must focus on news media sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, in particular:

• Local and regional media
• Independent and investigative journalism
• Organisations delivering public interest news/public service journalism (such as community, legal and civic journalism and media, or news increasing transparency about the media).

Applicants must present, develop and implement funding schemes. These funding schemes shall take the form of financial support to third parties. They shall focus on activities that contribute to sustaining, improving or transforming the work of the targeted parties. Activities can consist of:

• Editorial production, coverage and innovations
• The development of governance standards and editorial oversights
• The improvement of distribution and dissemination of news
• The development and engagement of audiences
• The development or maintenance of technical tools applying to the above topics
• Training on the above topics, legal advice and sectorial events
• In addition to funding schemes, applicants can propose capacity building measures benefitting their chosen sector/s.

Expected impact

• Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
• Increased interest in journalism, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
• Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content;

Specific for Topic 1. “Journalism Partnerships – Collaborations”:

• Increased media collaboration;
• Sector-wide networks for the exchange of best practices among news media professionals;
• Knowledge-hubs for sub-sectors around technical formats (written/online press, radio/podcasts, TV, etc.) and/or journalistic genres (data journalism, general topics, specialised journalism, etc.);
• Acquisition and improvement of professional skills by journalists as well as media business professionals.

Specific for Topic 2. “Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism”:

• Increased resilience, pluralism and editorial independence of media sectors at European level, such as local, regional and community media, investigative media or media specialised in public interest topics;
• Increased resilience of civil society organisations active in the news media sectors and protection of the news media landscape;
• Improved uptake of new technologies across the targeted media sectors in as much this contributes to media pluralism and a diverse media landscape;
• Fostering repositories of knowledge about media sectors delivering public interest news (e.g., by detecting areas with low provision of high-quality content and/or in which media pluralism is strained).