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NEWS - JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS - COLLABORATIONS

Funder
European Commission · Creative Europe
Award amount
Not specified
Deadline
February 4, 2027
Eligible countries
European Union

Summary

Open EU call topic CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS · CREA Project Grants. Part of call CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART: JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS. Next deadline 2027-02-04. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS

Scope: The news media sectors play a crucial role in the diversity, independence and trustworthiness of the information space. Despite being essential to our democracies, these sectors are facing multiple challenges. The economic sustainability of professional journalism has come under pressure, partially as a result of the digital transformation, with readers shifting to online sources and traditional news outlets losing advertising revenues. Many media at the local level as well as those focusing on public interest mission news struggle to survive, which may weaken media pluralism as well as engagement and trust in democracy. In line with the European Democracy Shield, this call addresses media challenges and opportunities of a transnational nature by supporting projects specialising in: Topic 1. “Journalism Partnerships - Collaborations” This topic seeks to help the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, including small media. Support is foreseen for collaborative projects in and between any news media (sub)sector and/or genre that aim to enhance cooperation, help media adapt to new economic and consumption realities and instil systemic change across that (sub)sector. Priorities

Projects must focus on ways to develop collaborative transformation, from a business, technological and/or production point of view.

Projects can aim to develop, inter alia, better revenue and monetisation models, strategies to mutualise costs, new approaches to audience development, community-building and marketing, development of common professional/technical standards, new types of newsrooms, syndication networks or other models to…

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