Microgrants for Small Newsrooms

This grant and mentoring programme as part of the ongoing PluPro project aims to empower 50 local independent media outlets. The goal is to foster resilience and viability through capacity-building activities, design-learning innovation, and a repository of case studies and best practices. It aims to encourage a culture of innovation at the local level through introducing media personnel to a design-learning approach focused on audience research, prototyping, and testing new products and services.

By the end of the project, it will have accumulated a vast set of case studies and best practices that can then be shared with other newsrooms across Europe, in countries suffering from a lack of plurality and beyond. All project outputs will be freely accessible, fostering ongoing professional development beyond the programme's duration.

This programme will:

• Allow small news outlets in countries where media plurality is under threat to implement new tactics and skills to build resilience and viability;
• Encourage a culture of innovation at the local level through introducing media personnel to a design-learning approach focused on audience research, prototyping, and testing new products and services;
• Accumulate a vast set of case studies and best practices that can then be shared with other newsrooms across Europe, in countries suffering from a lack of plurality and beyond.

Financial support

For the Microgrants for Small Newsrooms (2024-2025), Journalismfund Europe received support from The European Union, Vereniging Veronica and Limelight Foundation.

An independent jury of four decides who gets a grant. Here's how the jury works.

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