The Uutisraivaaja jury decided to award funding to the following four projects: Kaksi maailmaa (Two worlds), 35,100 euros To encourage students to engage in critical thinking by developing a method where stories made by AI and stories made by a journalist can be compared with each other. Demokraattinen toimitus, Rare ry, 50,000 euros A journalistic…
The contest seeks journalistic projects which apply new tecnhologies Uutisraivaaja is a media innovation contest organized by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. The contest seeks timely and societally significant journalistic projects, which apply new technologies. Uutisraivaaja’s goal is to advance innovations in journalism. The winners of the challenge will implement their project with the Uutisraivaaja Award,…
Five journalistic projects received funding from Uutisraivaaja Each project was awarded 30 000 euros The Uutisraivaaja jury decided to award funding to the following five projects: archi.tours: Virtual stories about architechture, created with the latest VR technology. Caverna: Three short documentaries in a form of a hybrid between a fake documentary and a real one. Workshops…
The application period for Uutisraivaaja 2021 has ended. A warm thank you for all participants. The winners will be announced late March / early April.
Uutisraivaaja Media Innovation Challenge launched for the sixth time The contest seeks timely and societally significant journalistic projects Uutisraivaaja is a media innovation contest organized by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. The contest seeks timely and societally significant journalistic projects, which apply new technologies. Uutisraivaaja’s goal is to advance innovations in journalism. The winners of the…
The winner of the Uutisraivaaja Media Innovation Challenge in the season 2018–2019 is RARE. RARE is a new media for the young by the young that brings journalistic content to where the youth are, in ways that they are used to consuming media. RARE produces journalism for instance to social media and has taken it…
Who takes home the Uutisraivaaja Award in the autumn 2019? What have the finalist teams accomplished during the last six months? We are soon to find out as the Uutisraivaaja season 2018–2019 is coming to its end. The final event of the Uutisraivaaja Media Innovation Challenge takes place on October 23 in Helsinki. The evening…
The final event of the Uutisraivaaja Media Innovation Challenge 2019 takes place on Wednesday 23th October in Helsinki. Join us online to see which of the finalist teams is awarded in maximum 250,000 euros! The keynote speaker of the evening is Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian. Live stream of the event starts…
Five teams compete for the title of Uutisraivaaja 2019 and the maximum award of 250,000 euros. The Uutisraivaaja jury chose the finalists on Friday, March 22. The winner or winners of the media innovation challenge will be chosen among these teams. The finalist projects are: Comcom is a social media platform for websites, such as…
A great variety of projects compete again for the Uutisraivaaja funding. The Uutisraivaaja Media Innovation Challenge received in total 55 applications. The application period closed on January 31st 2019. Many applications relate to, for instance, new forms of using data, voice or images, but also the categories of co-production, business models and virtual or augmented…
