New grants for climate stories and registration walls done right

Politico starts selling AI-generated content for subscribers

Welcome!

This week on the Media Finance Monitor:

• 11 active grant calls (3 new)

• Registration walls and disintermediation 

• ElPais reaches 350 thousand (!!!) subscribers

• Lucy Küng’s 2024 strategy “mindmap”

• Politico is launching an AI service for subscribers

• Lessons from the first 2 years of Pluralis investment fund

Let's start with the active calls, with the largest at the top.

Journalism Partnerships - PLURALISM

• Who: European Commission

• How much: Up to EUR 3.000.000 per project (at 90% funding rate)

• What is it for: Re-granting for media development

• How long: 24 months

• Submission deadline: 14th of February 2024

• Eligible countries: EU member countries + Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Ukraine

Journalism Partnerships - COLLABORATIONS

• Who: European Commission

• How much: Up to EUR 2.000.000 per project (at 80% funding rate)

• What is it for: Large-scale, cross-border product/content/business development

• How long: 24 months

• Submission deadline: 14th of February 2024

• Eligi…