Abstract
Innovation for journalism has become an increasing matter of survival in the new digital media landscape. However, we still face a lack of a shared understanding of media innovation within academia combined with an inability to clearly define what is innovation related to the news industry. This paper contributes to the necessity of better defining journalism innovation by analyzing seventeen highlighted projects on Google DNI Fund 2018 Report initiative. We propose a framework of five variables: implementation stage; innovation mindset; innovation focus/innovation target; proven journalist outcomes; and potential replicability degree. The conclusions show that news media innovators are searching for ecosystem solutions rather than worry about solutions for themselves. News business models and news narratives or formats are strongly connected, which means that media might finally understand that they should work for real users and not for imagined ones.
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The project resulted in a feature in The Atlantic, written by Broussard: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/07/why-poor-schools-cant-win-at-standardized-testing/374287/
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All data refers to those presented in the Google DNI Fund three-year report (2018). Other sources of each initiative were not consulted, in order to maintain a pattern.
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A remark: projects can be connected with more than one innovation target, but it should be a primary focus. In case of news business models it has, for instance, to be related with a paid product or a solution directly connected with this profits. If it is a secondary goal resulting from a long-term strategy, as new niche audience to have, in the future, more subscribers, it was not considered as a new business model primary target.
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Each innovation initiative could be connected to more than one proven journalism outcome.
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Nunes, A.C.B., Canavilhas, J. (2020). Journalism Innovation and Its Influences in the Future of News: A European Perspective Around Google DNI Fund Initiatives. In: Vázquez-Herrero, J., Direito-Rebollal, S., Silva-Rodríguez, A., López-García, X. (eds) Journalistic Metamorphosis. Studies in Big Data, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36315-4_4
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